If AUDIT C score is 4 or below, give positive feedback and encourage your patient to keep their drinking at lower risk levels.If score is 5 to 10, give brief advice to encourage a reduction in alcohol consumption and reduce the risk of alcohol harm.Feedback to the patient that their level of drinking is putting them at risk of developing a range of health problems (including cancers of the mouth, throat and breast) and this increases the more you drink and the more frequently you drink. Highlight ‘low risk’ guidelines for alcohol consumption from UK Chief Medical Officers:

• to keep health risks from alcohol to a low level, it is safest not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis
• if you regularly drink as much as 14 units per week, it’s best to spread your drinking evenly over 3 or more days.
• if you wish to cut down the amount you drink, a good way to help achieve this is to have several drink
• free days a weekGive a leaflet.