ADPH London Reducing Gambling Related Harms CoP

From financial year 2025/26, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) became the national commissioner for gambling harm prevention following the introduction of the statutory gambling levy. This marks a move away from a voluntary, industry‑funded model to one designed to ensure transparency and independence.

A dedicated OHID gambling harms prevention team has been established to oversee this funding and to lead the development of a new national prevention programme. This includes managing the transition from the pre‑levy system  to a new model where prevention activity is commissioned directly by OHID and funded through the statutory levy.

To support this transition, OHID, in partnership with ADPH London and Haringey Council, delivered a symposium on reducing gambling harms in March 2026, bringing together local authority and ICB representatives from East of England, London, South East, South West, and West Midlands regions.

The report from the symposium can be accessed here.

 Membership:

• Jackie Chin, CPH OHID London, Ruth Du Plessis, Interim DPH Brent, Dr Will Maimaris, DPH Haringey
• Secretariat – Joanna Drazdzewska, ADPH London
• Reducing gambling harms leads/ commissioners, London Directors of Public Health and Public Health Consultants from the 32 London Local Authorities + City of London
• OHID London
• GLA Health Team

Role/Purpose:

Provide a CPD development for borough based reducing gambling harms leads i.e. Public Health strategists and commissioners, as well as DsPH, CsPH and colleagues from OHID London and GLA health teams

Share best practice and evidence from across London, as well as outside the London region when necessary

Allow opportunity/space for collaboration and be a vehicle for disseminating key intelligence on reducing gambling harms pan London, to support the health improvement agenda and reduce health inequalities