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<p>Alcohol-related hospital admissions are used as a way of understanding the impact
of alcohol on the health of a population. Public Health England (PHE) uses two main
measures for reporting alcohol-related hospital admissions:</p><p> </p><p>- narrow
measure: where an alcohol-related disease, injury or condition was the primary reason
for a hospital admission or an alcohol-related external cause was recorded in a secondary
diagnosis field; and</p><p>- more recently a broader measure has been developed which
measures pressures from alcohol on health systems. For this indicator, the alcohol-attributable
fractions are applied in order to estimate the number of admissions rather than the
number of people.</p><p> </p><p>PHE publishes this data and provides tailored data
packs for each local authority to support their local decision making to reduce alcohol-related
harm and help to reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally,
there are a range of actions underway to tackle alcohol harm, and which aim to prevent
alcohol-related hospital admissions. These include:</p><p> </p><p>- a new national
programme to incentivise screening and provide appropriate interventions to all in
patients in National Health Service hospitals is being rolled out over the next two
years;</p><p>- many Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint areas have used
PHE’s menu of preventative interventions to guide their decisions on local action
to reduce alcohol harm and hospital admissions; and</p><p>- more widely, PHE’s One
You campaign includes tools to help those people who want to reduce their consumption
of alcohol, and the NHS Health Check continues to promote interventions to reduce
harm and offer alcohol treatment for people who need help to recover from dependence.</p>
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