Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were treated for alcohol-related illnesses in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group area and (c) England in each year since 2010.
Public Health England (PHE) holds data on alcohol-related hospital admissions for each local authority area in England which is shown in the following table.
Alcohol specific hospital admissions between 2010-11 and 2017-18
Year | York | North Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | England |
2010-11 | 841 | 2,679 | 1,234 | 284,660 |
2011-12 | 793 | 2,562 | 1,401 | 302,281 |
2012-13 | 891 | 2,480 | 1,232 | 293,859 |
2013-14 | 1,124 | 2,687 | 1,266 | 303,932 |
2014-15 | 1,138 | 3,134 | 1,279 | 301,056 |
2015-16 | 1,254 | 3,159 | 1,350 | 307,247 |
2016-17 | 1,281 | 3,163 | 1,495 | 298,797 |
2017-18 | 1,266 | 3,097 | 1,480 | 304,073 |
Source: Local Alcohol Profiles for England: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles
Note: These three local authority areas cover the areas requested.
PHE also collects data on people who are in treatment for alcohol problems in the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), for each local authority area in England which is shown in the following table.
Numbers of people in treatment who reported alcohol as a problematic substance between 2010-11 and 2017-18
Area | York | North Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | England |
2010-11 | 751 | 1,358 | 523 | 150,573 |
2011-12 | 604 | 1,507 | 516 | 149,403 |
2012-13 | 670 | 1,185 | 604 | 150,267 |
2013-14 | 703 | 1,046 | 712 | 155,381 |
2014-15 | 699 | 1,106 | 631 | 150,640 |
2015-16 | 743 | 1,340 | 637 | 144,908 |
2016-17 | 724 | 1,376 | 583 | 138,606 |
2017-18 | 635 | 1,339 | 511 | 131,008 |
Source: NDTMS: https://www.ndtms.net/
Note: These three local authority areas cover the areas requested.