Booze-Related Admissions Fall ; Region Bucks Trend with 20 Per Cent Drop

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph › October 22, 2009

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NORTH Lincolnshire has bucked national trends with a 20 per cent reduction in the number of alcohol-related hospital admissions.

New figures from the Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) show there were 1,490 people admitted to hospital as a consequence of alcohol consumption in 2008/09, compared to 1,866 in the previous year.

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Booze-Related Admissions Fall ; Region Bucks Trend with 20 Per Cent Drop

The 20 per cent decrease experienced by NHS North Lincolnshire was one of the few decreases nationally, in an eight per cent increase across the 152 primary care trusts ...

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