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Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Volume 470: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many alcohol related emergency admissions to Colchester General Hospital there were in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) age and (b) sex. (180366)

Data is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) for emergency admission by age at start of episode and gender for Essex Rivers National Health Service Trust, which operates from two sites, Colchester General and Essex County Hospitals.

Under 18

18 and over

Unknown

2006-07

Female

21

226

Male

22

421

1

2005-06

Female

16

209

Male

14

454

3

2004-05

Female

11

128

Male

13

306

3

2003-04

Female

13

93

Male

10

272

1

2002-03

Female

7

70

Male

10

237

2001-02

Female

*

86

Male

*

166

1

2000-01

Female

*

81

Male

6

158

1999-2000

Female

*

80

Male

13

124

1

1998-99

Female

*

55

Male

6

104

1997-98

Female

8

73

Male

10

159

Notes:

Data Quality

HES are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts, and primary care trusts (PCTs) in England. Data is also received from a number of Independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.

FAEs

An FAE is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.

Admission method codes used:

21 = Emergency: via Accident and Emergency (A&E) services, including the casualty department of the provider

22 = Emergency: via general practitioner (GP)

23 = Emergency: via Bed Bureau, including the Central Bureau

24 = Emergency: via consultant outpatient clinic

Assessing growth through time

HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. During the years that these records have been collected by the NHS there have been ongoing improvements in quality and coverage. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series.

Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example a number of procedures may now be undertaken in out-patient settings and may no longer be accounted in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time.

Low Numbers

Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed and replaced with ‘*’ (an asterisk).

All Diagnoses count of Mentions

These figures represent a count of all mentions of a diagnosis in any of the 14 diagnosis fields in the HES data set. Therefore, if a diagnosis is mentioned in more than one diagnosis field during an episode, all diagnoses are counted.

Diagnosis codes used:

F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol

K70—Alcoholic liver disease

T51—Toxic effect of Alcohol

Ungrossed Data

Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care.