Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Health Services
(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent from the public purse by (a) NHS bodies and (b) local authorities on (i) drug and (ii) alcohol abuse (A) prevention and (B) treatment in (1) 2016-17, (2) 2017-18, (3) 2018-19 and (4) 2019-2020 to date.
Data on spending on drug and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment (including alcohol related hospital admissions) by National Health Service bodies and providers is not collected centrally. Local authorities report their spending on drug and alcohol treatment and prevention to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This information is published by the Office for National Statistics and is known as the local authority outrun. Local authority spend for 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 is shown in the following table. Figures for 2019/20 have not yet been published.
Service Provision | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
Treatment for alcohol misuse | £202,777,000 | £186,803,000 | £182,384,000 |
Preventing and reducing harm from alcohol misuse | £38,073,000 | £45,478,000 | £43,682,000 |
Treatment for drug misuse | £425,345,000 | £393,017,000 | £365,488,000 |
Preventing and reducing harm from drug misuse | £67,584,000 | £67,009,000 | £67,805,000 |
Drug and alcohol misuse services for children and young people | £49,400,000 | £44,239,000 | £40,066,000 |
Overall spend | £783,179,000 | £736,546,000 | £699,425,000 |
The annual local authority outruns can be viewed at the following link:
Through the NHS Long Term Plan, up to 50 hospitals will establish Alcohol Care Teams, which could prevent 50,000 admissions over five years.