Vision
Our vision is to have a workforce of health professionals educated and supported to reduce health harm from alcohol.
The MCA is an independent charity of health professionals from all medical specialties, without links to the government or the alcohol industry. We are dedicated to improving the understanding and management of alcohol-related health harm.
Mission
The MCA’s mission is to:
- Ensure that all doctors, medical students, nurses and other professionals allied to medicine understand the risks to their patients from alcohol and act effectively to prevent and manage these.
- Work with health care professionals to increase their understanding of the risks associated with their own alcohol consumption and of the measures to address these.
- Promote scientific advancement in the understanding, prevention and management of alcohol related harm through our Journal and other publications and activities.
- Work with organisations on public health and policy interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm.
MCA Structure
President:
Ian Gilmore
Medical Director:
Dr DA Florin
Executive Assistant and Office Manager:
Jess Luxon
Administrative Officer:
Clare Farrow
Treasurer:
Graham Warner
Auditors:
Goldwyns
The MCA is affiliated with the Royal College of Physicians
History of the MCA
The MCA was officially formed in 1969 by:
- Clement Price Thomas, Surgeon
- Francis Edward Camps, Pathologist
- Max Meier Glatt, Psychiatrist
- Noel H. Moynihan, GP
- A. Lawrance Abel, Surgeon
- Harold Charles Stewart, Pharmacologist
- Herbert Davis Chalke, Medical Practitioner
The MCA came into being on 20th April 1967 when 50 founder members met at the BMA to elect officers and discuss future policy. Sir Clement Price Thomas was the first chair of the organisation. In his opening speech he said, “there had been ample evidence of an urgent need for a representative medical body to concern itself with the problems of alcoholism”.
The first executive members of the board were:
- Sir Clement Price Thomas
- John Philip Wyndham Hughes
- Max Meier Glatt
- Francis Edward Camps
- John Ian George Pickering
- Noel Henry Moynihan
- Alexander David Cameron
- William Ivor Neil Kessel
- Harold Charles Stewart
- John Francis Desmond Murphy
- Astor Balfour Sclare
- Spencer Madden
- Thomas Henry Bewley
- Myrddin Evans
- David Lewis Davies
- Sean Desmond McGrath
- Edward Lincoln Williams
- Herbert David Chalke