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Alcohol related hospital admissions up by 69% since 2002

1st May 2009

Alcohol related hospital admissions up by 69% since 2002

In answer to a question in the House of Commons, Dawn
Primarolo, the Minister of State for Public Health, revealed that the
total number of hospital admissions for alcohol-related disorders
increased from 510,173 in 2002/03 to 863,257 in 2007/08.

These figures cover all alcohol-related diagnoses,
including those for which alcohol is the sole cause (e.g. acute
intoxication) as well as a proportion of those for which alcohol
increases the risk (e.g. a number of cancers).

For adults aged over 26, the number of men admitted to
hospital due to alcohol exceeds the number of women by 70% (502,942 men
and 295,296 women) and men have shown a greater increase in the number
of admissions than women (74% increase for men and a 67% increase for
women).

However, at younger ages the difference between male and
female admissions is less, and for 10-16 year-olds, more girls than boys
are admitted to hospital due to alcohol. For young men, the rate of
increase in admissions appears to be slowing, and for boys aged 10-16
there was a decrease in the number of admissions between 2006/07 and
2007-08. The same cannot be said for young women and girls, for whom
admissions continue to rise.

 

 

The complete set of figures is available here.

More news items
Health Select Committee Inquiry into Alcohol
Alcohol in Britain: trends show young men are binge-drinking less, but women are binge-drinking more

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