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ABSG Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms – Year Two

ABSG - Year two Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms

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Published
7 July 2021

Last updated
28 June 2021 - Changes

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• ABSG Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms – Year Two

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• Executive summary
• Recommendations
• Introduction
• - Introduction
• - Background
• - Impact of Covid-19 on partnership working
• - Trends in gambling
• - Gambling Act Review
• - Online harms
• Delivery and governance
• - Delivery and governance
• - Progress involving people with lived experience of gambling harms.
• - Mixed picture of national strategic co-ordination of implementation
• - Metrics for measuring harm
• - Evaluation of policy
• - Funding
• - Research
• Prevention and education
• - Prevention and education
• - Improved regulatory protections
• - Suicide and gambling
• - Improved profile of gambling harms as a public health issue
• - Increased engagement from the financial services sector
• - Gambling is not yet fully integrated with local public health activity
• - Increased education and awareness raising activity
• Treatment and support
• - Treatment and support
• - Expansion of treatment and support services in new areas
• - The evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete
• - Need for more integrated treatment services
• - Clarification of referral pathways required
• - Triage and completed treatments
• - Lack of independent quality assurance
• - Follow-up support
• Conclusions
• Annex 1: Priority Metrics for measurement of National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms

7 - Lack of independent quality assurance

In England, Care Quality Commission (CQC) involvement and assessment has not progressed during the year, in part because of the challenges posed by Covid-19. CQC continue to give assurance that they will engage with the treatment sector and are exploring ways of delivering virtual inspections.

This is a model that could create opportunities to expand engagement and extend the work with gambling treatment services. ABSG continue to stress the importance of external quality assurance in addition to any investment in internal QA processes by individual providers in England, Scotland, and Wales¹⁴⁴.

References

¹⁴⁴ Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Care Inspectorate (opens in new tab) - website

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