Alcohol-specific activity in hospitals in England

Nuffield Trust -
This report investigates the growing burden of alcohol-related activity on hospitals in England and concludes that the NHS faces a ‘stark challenge’ in trying to deal with the consequences of harmful drinking. It finds that emergency admissions to hospital specific to alcohol have increased by over 50% in nine years and now top a quarter of a million a year, while the rate of people attending A&E with probable alcohol poisoning has doubled in six years. The authors of the report set out to assess the extent of alcohol-specific activity in hospitals in England, whether it had increased over time, and whether these trends were different across demographic, socio-economic and regional patterns.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - press release