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Leading doctors are calling for an end to cheap alcohol in an attempt to resolve the hospital accident and emergency crisis.
In a letter to The Telegraph, 20 senior health professionals are calling for a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol, which they say could tackle a culture of “excessive alcohol consumption”.
Latest figures show that 20 per cent of A&E attendances are alcohol related.
The figures rises to 80 per cent during peak weekend periods on Friday and Saturday nights. Each year, more than one million hospital admissions in England are alcohol related.
Over the last decade, such admissions in those aged between 15 and 29 have risen by almost 60 per cent.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...-prices-to-stop-AandE-crisis-say-doctors.html
In a letter to The Telegraph, 20 senior health professionals are calling for a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol, which they say could tackle a culture of “excessive alcohol consumption”.
Latest figures show that 20 per cent of A&E attendances are alcohol related.
The figures rises to 80 per cent during peak weekend periods on Friday and Saturday nights. Each year, more than one million hospital admissions in England are alcohol related.
Over the last decade, such admissions in those aged between 15 and 29 have risen by almost 60 per cent.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...-prices-to-stop-AandE-crisis-say-doctors.html