{"id":11715,"date":"2019-02-26T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2019-02-26T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:50:37","slug":"338000-admitted-to-hospital-as-a-result-of-alcohol-in-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/338000-admitted-to-hospital-as-a-result-of-alcohol-in-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"338,000 admitted to hospital as a result of alcohol in 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to new figures from NHS Digital show there were 338,000 admissions to hospital <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In 2017\/18 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">where the main cause was to drinking alcohol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The figures are 15% higher than a decade ago. Alcohol related admissions still account for a similar percentage of overall hospital admissions (2.1% in 2017\/18, 2.1% in 2016\/17 and 2.3% in 2007\/08).<\/p>\n<p>21% of adults (16+) drank more than 14 units of alcohol per week, 28% were men and 14% were women. The official number for hospital admissions are 337,870 but is rounded up to 338,000 and this is similar to the results in 2016\/17.\u00a0 Alcohol deaths has increased to 5,843 in 2017 making it a 6% increase from 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130.jpg 5645w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1130260130-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main primary care reasons for hospital admissions were for alcohol related disease, injury or condition or there was an alcohol-related external cause. People aged 45 or over accounted for 69% of admissions where the main cause was alcohol. Blackpool had the highest alcohol admissions in England, with 1,100 admissions per 100,000 population. Wokingham had the lowest rate which was 390.<\/p>\n<p>Other facts from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alcoholic liver disease accounted for 80% of the alcohol specific deaths in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Adults in higher income households were more likely to drink over 14 units in a usual week (27%) than those in lower income households (15%) in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Girls (11%) aged 11 to 15 were more likely to have been drunk in the last four weeks than boys (7%) in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>76,000 people were treated for problematic drinking in 2017\/18, this was 6% lower than in 2016\/17.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vanessa Hebditch,<\/strong> director of policy at the British Liver Trust, said the Government should increase taxes on alcoholic drinks or set a minimum unit price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said<\/strong>: &#8220;These statistics are alarming. Over the last thirty years, there has been a big shift in the UK\u2019s drinking culture, particularly amongst middle aged and older drinkers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Filling up your supermarket trolley with wine and drinking at home has become increasingly acceptable and affordable. The Government should act to address this through taxation such as by creating a minimum unit price&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr John Larsen<\/strong>, director of evidence and impact for alcohol education charity Drinkaware, warned that young people are more likely to binge drink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He said: <\/strong>&#8220;The more alcohol people drink, the greater their risk of developing a serious condition, such as high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as seven types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men and women should not drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Government estimates alcohol misuse costs the NHS about \u00a33.5 billion each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new figures from NHS Digital show there were 338,000 admissions to hospital In 2017\/18 where the main cause was to drinking alcohol. The figures are 15% higher than a decade ago. Alcohol related admissions still account for a similar percentage of overall hospital admissions (2.1% in 2017\/18, 2.1% in 2016\/17 and 2.3% in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[858,859,171,860,861],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-858","tag-admissions-for-alcohol","tag-health","tag-hospital-admissions","tag-hospital-admissions-for-alcohol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11717,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions\/11717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}