Question reference: S6W-01840
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have presented with alcohol addiction issues in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is publically available from PHS. This release provides information on alcohol-related inpatient and day case activity within general acute and psychiatric hospitals in Scotland. The release covers general acute hospital activity for the financial years 1981 to 1982, until 2019 to 2020 and psychiatric hospital admissions from 1997 to 1998 until 2018 to 2019. Due to limited data completeness the psychiatric hospital admissions were not updated for the financial year 2019 to 2020.
The most recent publication is available here Alcohol related hospital statistics - Scotland financial year 2019 to 2020 - Alcohol related hospital statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland.
More detailed information on alcohol treatment will become available for future years following the full implementation of the DAISy system which went live from 1 December 2020.