The vision of the Medical Council on Alcohol (MCA) is to have a health workforce educated to reduce health harm from alcohol. In this symposium, the MCA will focus on the ways in which health professionals from different disciplines, sectors and specialties can act to reduce these harms. Researchers will cover approaches including brief interventions in different settings, primary care and commissioning, inequalities and public health, addiction medicine and accident and emergency. They will be presenting the latest research evidence and ways of implementing it in practice. This symposium will be of interest to doctors from all specialties, nurses and other health care professionals.