Booze puts one Briton in hospital every 7 minutes as NHS sees 54% leap in alcohol admissions over past decade | Mail Online

01:28 Booze puts one Briton in hospital every 7 minutes as NHS sees 54% leap in alcohol admissions over past decade | Mail Online 0 Comments

Booze puts one Briton in hospital every 7 minutes as NHS sees 54% leap in alcohol admissions over past decade | Mail Online: "One person every seven minutes is admitted to hospital for a health problem directly attributed to alcohol. It marks an astonishing 54 per cent rise over the past decade, as the scale of Labour’s binge-drink legacy is laid bare.And the startling figures do not even come close to reflecting alcohol’s full impact on the NHS because they exclude conditions that are merely exacerbated by drink, such as diabetes and most types of heart disease.The figures from the NHS Information Centre show that almost 70,000 people were admitted to NHS hospitals last year wholly due to alcohol, compared with 45,000 in 1999/2000.This includes people who have had too much to drink, and are classified as suffering anything from alcohol poisoning to cirrhosis of the liver.It includes some admissions from A&E and some directly into hospital via ambulance or doctor’s referral.Separate figures last week revealed that 13,000 alcohol-related admissions of young people under 18 were recorded last year – mostly girls. That number is up by a third in just five years."