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HOSPITAL ALCOHOL ADMISSIONS DOUBLE

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Number of alcohol-related hospital admissions has doubled since 1995/96

Thursday May 22,2008

There were 207,788 NHS hospital admissions in England with a primary or secondary diagnosis related to alcohol in 2006/07, new figures show.

This number has more than doubled from the 93,459 in 1995/96.

The official figures were released by the Information Centre for Health and Social Care.


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