Public Health Institute reports

Globally, there have been increasing calls to recognise and approach gambling as a public health issue. In recognition of the harms associated with gambling, the Liverpool Gambling Related Harm Steering Group was established in 2023. The aim of the group is to develop a co-ordinated approach to reduce gambling related harms and implement evidenced-based strategies to prevent and respond to gambling related harm across Liverpool. A key action for this group is to develop and support processes to gather data and intelligence of gambling related harms. However, following a scoping exercise, it was identified there was a lack of data specific to Liverpool on the nature and extent of gambling related harms. As part of wider activities with the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership, Liverpool John Moores University were commissioned to conduct a representative household survey of adults residing in Merseyside to understand the nature and prevalence of violence and identify its impacts and associations with health and wellbeing, and other health risk behaviours (i.e. the MerVCom survey). One of the health risk behaviours included in the survey was gambling, providing a unique data source to examine the nature and extent of gambling behaviour and gambling related harms across areas of Merseyside, including Liverpool. The study presented in this report used secondary data from the MerVCom survey to estimate the prevalence of gambling and gambling related harm across Liverpool, identify associations with sociodemographics, health risk behaviours, violence victimisation and criminal behaviour, ACEs, and health and wellbeing. In addition it explored the extent and nature of intergenerational transmission of gambling related harm.

Through the Drug Interventions Programme, Knowsley Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) works with adults in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This CJIT Activity report shows trends over a six-year period up to the year ending March 2024 for clients accessing the CJIT, including demographics, substance use, offences and other episode details.

Through the Drug Interventions Programme, Liverpool Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) works with adults in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This CJIT Activity report shows trends over a six-year period up to the year ending March 2024 for clients accessing the CJIT, including demographics, substance use, offences and other episode details.

Through the Drug Interventions Programme, Sefton Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) works with adults in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This CJIT Activity report shows trends over a six-year period up to the year ending March 2024 for clients accessing the CJIT, including demographics, substance use, offences and other episode details.

Through the Drug Interventions Programme, St Helens Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) works with adults in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This CJIT Activity report shows trends over a six-year period up to the year ending March 2024 for clients accessing the CJIT, including demographics, substance use, offences and other episode details.

Through the Drug Interventions Programme, [Knowsley/Liverpool/Sefton/St Helens/Wirral] Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) works with adults in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This CJIT Activity report shows trends over a six-year period up to the year ending March 2024 for clients accessing the CJIT, including demographics, substance use, offences and other episode details.

Major economic costs are imposed on the health system by violence. It both increases the demand for healthcare to treat the physical and emotional injuries from violent incidents and threatens the safety, health, and wellbeing of healthcare workers. In this report, we examine the costs of community violence and violence, harassment, and abuse towards staff working in the NHS in England in 2021-2022.

This Costing tool accompanies the report 'Costs of Violence to the NHS in England in 2021/22'. It has been developed to help Integrated Care Systems to identify the costs of violence to the health system in their region. (Excel file download)

This Infographic provides a summary of the findings of the report 'Costs of violence to the NHS in England in 2021/22'.

Violence, harassment and abuse in the workplace is a pervasive issue and evidence globally suggests that staff working in the healthcare sector are at increased risk of violence, harassment and abuse. This report presents an evidence-based overview of the nature, extent and impact of work-based violence, harassment and abuse towards NHS staff and presents examples of practice in preventing and responding to violence, harassment and abuse.