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Public Health Scotland. (2024) Alcohol related hospital statistics Scotland financial year 2023 to 2024. Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland.

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In 2023/24 there were 32,301 alcohol-related hospital admissions (stays) in Scotland. The majority of alcohol-related hospital admissions (92%) occurred in general acute hospitals (29,829) with the remaining 8% of admissions (2,469) occurring in psychiatric hospitals.
In 2023/24, the European Age-sex standardised rate of alcohol-related hospital admissions to general acute hospitals was 548 per 100,000 population and was 3% higher than the rate in 2022/23 (532 per 100,000).
In 2023/24, males (539 patients per 100,000 population) were two times more likely than females (233 patients per 100,000 population) to be admitted to hospitals for conditions wholly attributable to alcohol.
In 2023/24, people in the most deprived areas (942 patients per 100,000 population), as measured by SIMD, were six times more likely to be admitted to hospitals for conditions wholly attributable to alcohol than those in the least deprived areas (143 patients per 100,000 population).

Item Type

Report

Publication Type

International, Report

Drug Type

Alcohol

Intervention Type

Treatment method

Date

17 December 2024

Publisher

Public Health Scotland

Corporate Creators

Public Health Scotland

Place of Publication

Edinburgh

EndNote

Subjects

A Substance use and dependence > Prevalence
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Alcohol use disorder
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care delivery
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care programme, service or facility > Hospital
T Demographic characteristics > Gender / sex differences
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland

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