To help tackle the health effects of alcohol misuse 60,000 new doctors are to be trained to identify and treat people who are drinking too much, public health minister Dawn Primarolo has announced.

Medical schools have been given funding to do a scoping exercise to see how alcohol misuse training can be added to the curriculum, with the training on every medical school curriculum in the country within three years.

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