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SMACAP

The Scottish Ministerial Advisory Committee on Alcohol Problems is a Departmental advisory committee chaired by Tom McCabe, the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care. The Committee meets 3 or 4 times a year with a formal remit to:

"Advise the Scottish Executive on policy, priorities and strategic planning in relation to tackling alcohol misuse in Scotland."

Under this broad remit the Committee:

• focuses on specific Scottish themes;
  
• undertakes or commissions (via the Secretariat) work on topics of particular concern or specific relevance to Scotland;
  
• provides a forum for the dissemination of best practice and the development of new thinking;
  
• provides advice on effective use of funds; information and research needs; policy and practice on prevention and promotion activity; and the development of guidance on effective planning and provision of services;
  
• provides a lead to Alcohol Action Teams for taking forward local activity to underpin the national Plan.

SMACAP Membership

• Tom McCabe, MSP, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care, (Chair)
• Professor Peter Donnelly, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, (Deputy Chair)
• Dr Andrew Fraser, Head of Health, Scottish Prison Service
• Mr Jack Law, Chief Executive, Alcohol Focus Scotland
• Mrs Jean Coussins, Director, Portman Group
• Dr Charles Lind, Clinical Director of Addictions, Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust
• Mr Tim Huntingford, Chief Executive, West Dunbartonshire Council
• Mr Paul Waterson, Chairman, Scottish Licensed Trade Association
• Prof. Peter Brunt, Consultant Physician, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
• Cllr. Douglas Kerr, Chair, Edinburgh Licensing Board
• Mr Ian Davidson, Community Nurse Alcohol Problems, Bangor Village Hospital
• Sheriff John P. Herald
• Dr Dean Marshall, General Practitioner
• Mr Charles Steel, Independent Addictions Consultant
• Mr Marcus Liddle, Chief Executive, Young Scot
• Malcolm Dickson, Assistant Chief Constable, Lothian & Borders Police
• Jacqui Watt, Executive Director - Community Services, Shetland Islands Council
• Mr Kieran Simpson, Public Affairs Manager, Scottish and Newcastle
• Mrs Sandra Maguire, Chief Executive, Fife Alcohol Advisory Service
• Dr Laurence Gruer, Consultant in Public Medicine, NHS Health Scotland
• Mr David Kellock, Deputy Director (Operations), Church of Scotland Board of Social Responsibility
• Dr Maggie Watts, Chair, Scottish Association of Alcohol Action Teams