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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Press Release - Alcohol related hospital admissions double in last ten years according to latest official figures

The latest compendium of figures issued today (26 June) by the independent provider of official health and social care statistics, the Information Centre (The IC) show how hospital admissions specifically related to alcohol consumption have more than doubled in the last ten years.

In 2005/06, there were 187,640 NHS hospital admissions among adults aged 16 and over with either a primary or secondary diagnosis specifically related to alcohol. This has increased from 89,280 in 1995/96.
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