Alcohol related admissions to hospital

What this data shows:

Alcohol consumption is a contributing factor to hospital admissions and deaths from a diverse range of conditions. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost the NHS about £3.5 billion per year and society as a whole £21 billion annually.

How the data is gathered:

The number of admissions involving an alcohol-related primary diagnosis or an alcohol-related external cause per 100,000 population (age standardised). Directly standardised rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population.

The colour coding for this indicator uses a red, blue and green colour key to indicate how the individual values in local authorities compare. Comparisons are with local authorities of similar socioeconomic status. Upper tier local authorities are allocated to ten groups according to their index of multiple deprivation, allowing their indicator values to be compared with 14 others that have similar socioeconomic status. Green denotes values that are statistically significantly better than the average for the deprivation group and red denotes values that are statistically significantly worse

More information about the data source:

Data for England includes records with geography 'Unknown' and 'No fixed abode'. Children aged less than 16 years were only included for alcohol-specific conditions and for low birth weight. Conditions where low levels of alcohol consumption are protective (have a negative alcohol-attributable fraction) are not included in the calculation of the indicator. See Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) user guide for further details - http://www.lape.org.uk/downloads/Lape_guidance_and_methods.pdf

Data Source:

Public Health England (using hospital episode statistics and ONS population data) published at http://www.lape.org.uk/.

Data Period:

2012/13

Further Information:

For more information please see Indicator 2.18 at www.phoutcomes.info.