During 2014/15 the Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee undertook a review of Alcohol Services in Stockport. This was in response to a series of public health indicators suggesting that Stockport had significantly worse rates of alcohol related liver problems than elsewhere in England. As part of the Review the Scrutiny Committee heard evidence from commissioners, service providers and users about the effectiveness of the current model of service delivery and how it might be improved to ensure it was more focussed on longer recovery.