Massive jump in drink-related hospital admissions

May 23 2008 by Alan Weston, Liverpool Daily Post

EXPERTS issued new warnings over Britain’s alcohol epidemic as figures showed the number of hospital admissions has more than doubled in just over a decade.

Official data revealed the number of admissions to NHS hospitals in England jumped 7% in just one year, from 193,637 in 2005/06 to 207,788 in 2006/07.

This is more than double the 93,459 figure for 1995/96, according to the report from the NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

Professor Ian Gilmore, a physician at the Royal Liverpool hospital and president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: “These figures show a depressing rise in drink-related damage to health.”