Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This time last year public health campaigners and policy makers were confident that a minimum price on a unit of alcohol would be introduced across the United Kingdom. The evidence for substantial health benefits and cost savings was clear, a public consultation on the level of the price was just closing, Scotland had introduced a minimum unit price (though now under legal challenge by the drinks industry), and the UK prime minister had given his personal commitment that England and Wales would follow suit. Then in July the government announced that the policy had been shelved.
The politics behind this sudden U-turn have been something of a mystery. The Home Office minister Jeremy Browne gave as his reason …
Source: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g110
Author: F. Godlee
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2020201848