NHS Choices offers drinking assessment tool

NHS Choices has launched a new interactive tool, developed to help people assess their drinking behaviour and understand the government’s daily allowance alcohol limits.

The drinking assessment tool is designed to enable users to calculate whether they are drinking too much, based on NHS advice, and provide them with clinically approved guidance on how to cut down or seek advice if they are concerned about their behaviour.

Provided in the form of an online survey and interactive quiz, the tool asks questions designed to gauge people’s ‘relationship with alcohol”, it includes sections such as matching up units of alcohol with different drinks and a ‘alcoholometer’ for people to indicate how much they drink on a night out.

A NHS Choices spokesperson said: “This interactive tool has been created with users in mind and is a valuable addition to the health resources being made available to the public by the NHS Choices.

“It puts patients in the driving seat by giving them exactly the sort of reliable and dependable information they need to take control of their health at the click of a mouse.”

The drinking assessment tool follows the recent launch of a BMI calculator and Diabetes symptom checker on the website.

The website, which was launched by the DH last June,  is currently delivered by Dr Foster. The DH has an £80m procurement underway for the future running and development of the site, with six companies shortlisted to take over from this June.

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