Massive Jump in Drink-Related Hospital Admissions

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.”

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