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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
Contents
- Executive summary
- Recommendations
- Introduction
- Delivery and governance
- Prevention and education
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- 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
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- 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
1 - Treatment and support
Summary of findings – Treatment and Support
Strengths
- increased involvement of people with lived experience
- some limited expansion of treatment and support in new areas
- increased momentum in primary care involvement alongside whole systems approaches.
Weaknesses
- the evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete
- lack of agreed screening interventions to identify those at risk
- limited evidence of interventions to monitor and support ongoing recovery
- services are not well integrated
- clarification of referral pathways still required
- limited data on who needs treatment and support
- lack of progress on independent quality assurance
- evidence of poor follow up support emerging
- low take up of treatment and lack of awareness of support available.
Expansion of treatment and support services in new areas
Last updated: 28 June 2021
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