
Deaths in England directly caused by alcohol rose by 11% between 2006 and 2017. During the same period, hospital admissions in which alcohol misuse was a primary factor increased by 17%.
In 2017 alone almost 1 million hospital admissions were in some way related to this behaviour. That’s around 7% of all hospital admissions that year.
Cuts to alcohol services in the name of austerity have only made the problem worse, with many vulnerable people not receiving the help that they need.
In this context, a recent report by Alcohol Change UK, entitled Learning from Tragedies: An Analysis of...