Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) people, (b) people under 18, (c) people under 16 and (d) people under 12 (i) attended and (ii) were admitted via accident and emergency departments for excessive consumption of alcohol in each year since 2010.
Data is not collected centrally for those attending Accident and Emergency (A&E) for excessive consumption of alcohol
The following tables contain the sum of the estimated alcohol attributable fractions (AAFs) for (a) all age groups (b) people under 18, (c) people under 16 and (d) people under 12 that (ii) were admitted via A&E for excessive consumption of alcohol in each year since 2010.
It should be noted that these figures are not a count of people and represent an estimated number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol.
AAFs are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero, but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero.
These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol.
In addition, partial AAFs are not applicable to children aged under 16 years, therefore, figures for this age group relate only to wholly – attributable admissions.
Sum of wholly AAFs for admissions1 via A&E, for (a) all age groups (b) people under 18, (c) people under 16 and (d) people under 12 for the years 2009 -10 to 2012-132
Years | Ages | |||
| 0-11 | 0-15 | 0-17 | All ages |
2009 -10 | 150 | 3,599 | 6,595 | 209,772 |
2010 -11 | 111 | 3,017 | 5,952 | 222,478 |
2011 -12 | 110 | 2,493 | 5,007 | 233,447 |
2012 -13 | 102 | 2,084 | 4,175 | 225,383 |
Sum of partially AAFs for admissions1 via A&E, for (a) all age groups and people between the ages 16 -17, for the years 2009 -10 to 2012-132
Years | Ages | |
| 16-17 | All ages |
2009-10 | 4,224.02 | 336,058.00 |
2010-11 | 4,226.78 | 363,238.01 |
2011-12 | 3,958.53 | 372,613.81 |
2012-13 | 3,717.20 | 384,510.84 |
Sum of wholly and partially AAFs for admissions1 via A&E, for (a) all age groups (b) people under 18, (c) people under 16 and (d) people under 12 for the years 2009-10 to 2012-132
Years | Ages | |||
| 0-11 | 0-15 | 0-17 | All ages |
2009-10 | 150 | 3,599 | 10,819 | 545,830 |
2010-11 | 111 | 3,017 | 10,179 | 585,716 |
2011-12 | 110 | 2,493 | 8,966 | 606,061 |
2012-13 | 102 | 2,084 | 7,892 | 609,894 |
Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
Notes:
1Alcohol–related admissions
The number of alcohol-related admissions is based on the methodology developed by the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), which uses 48 indicators for alcohol-related illnesses, determining the proportion of a wide range of diseases and injuries that can be partly attributed to alcohol as well as those that are, by definition, wholly attributable to alcohol. Further information on these proportions can be found at:
www.nwph.net/nwpho/publications/AlcoholAttributableFractions.pdf
The AAF is set to 1 (100%) where the admission is considered to be entirely due to alcohol, e.g. in the case of alcoholic liver disease - these records are described as wholly alcohol attributable.
The AAF is set to a value greater than 0 but less than 1 according to the NWPHO definition, e.g. the alcohol fraction of an admission with a primary diagnosis of C00 - malignant neoplasm of lip, where the patient is male and between 65 and 74 is 0.44 - these records are described as partly alcohol attributable.
These wholly and partly attributable fractions can be aggregated to supply an estimate of activity which can be considered wholly or partly attributable to alcohol.
Partly AAFs are not applicable to children under 16. Therefore, figures for this age group relate only to wholly-attributable admissions, where the attributable fraction is one.
2Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care)
Hospital Episode Statistic figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.
Source:Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for Health & Social Care