Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of trends in hospital admissions due to alcohol in the last 10 years; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce such admissions.

Public Health England (PHE) published it’s alcohol evidence review, in December 2016, which included data on alcohol related hospital admissions.

There are a range of actions underway to tackle alcohol harm, and which are aimed to prevent alcohol-related hospital admissions. These include:

- a new national programme to incentivise screening and provide appropriate interventions to all in patients in National Health Service hospitals is being rolled out over the next two years;

- many Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint areas have used PHE’s menu of preventative interventions to guide their decisions on local action to reduce alcohol harm and hospital admissions; and

- more widely, PHE’s One You campaign includes tools to help those people who want to reduce their consumption of alcohol, and the NHS health check continues to promote interventions to reduce harm and offer alcohol treatment for people who need help to recover from dependence.