Statistics on Public Health, England 2025

Data comes from OHID's Fingertips tool and has a similar navigation for each of the four Statistics on Public Health domains.

A basic illustration is shown for the Alcohol domain below and more detailed guidance is available on the Fingertips site.

Data on the number of hospital admissions for diseases, injuries and conditions that can be attributed to alcohol consumption are produced by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Local Alcohol Profiles for England, which use data from NHS England’s Hospital Episode Statistics.

To access the data:

Navigate to the Data section of the Local Alcohol Profiles for England.

There are two types of Hospital Admissions data ("Hospital Admissions" and "Hospital Admissions By Age-Group") that are available by filtering on "Key Indicators" as shown below:

The indicators available for each filter are:

Hospital Admissions:

• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (Female)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Broad) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Broad) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Broad) (Female)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (Female)
• Estimated cost per capita of alcohol-related hospital admissions (Broad)

Hospital Admissions by Age Group:

• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (under 40 years) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (under 40 years) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (under 40 years) (Female)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (40 to 64 years) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (40 to 64 years) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (40 to 64 years) (Female)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (65 years and over) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (65 years and over) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (Narrow) (65 years and over) (Female)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (under 18 years) (Persons)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (under 18 years) (Male)
• Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (under 18 years) (Female)

Using the Area type filter the data can be shown at a County, Unitary Authority, District, ICB, region and national level as shown below.

More detailed guidance about the Fingertips tool is is available from here.

The data is available in the Drugs and Mental Health section of the Fingertips tool here: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/drugsandmentalhealth by filtering the Topic to "Alcohol, drugs and tobacco". The relevant indicators are then shown:

• Hospital admissions for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders (Persons)
• Hospital admissions for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders (Male)
• Hospital admissions for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders (Female)
• Hospital admissions for poisoning by drug misuse (Persons)
• Hospital admissions for poisoning by drug misuse (Male)
• Hospital admissions for poisoning by drug misuse (Female)
• Hospital admissions where drug-related mental and behavioural disorders were a factor (Persons)
• Hospital admissions where drug-related mental and behavioural disorders were a factor (Male)
• Hospital admissions where drug-related mental and behavioural disorders were a factor (Female)

The data is available broken down at England, Region, County, Unitary Authority, ICB and Region levels.

See the section above on Alcohol-related hospital admissions for basic guidance on how to use the Fingertips tool.

Definitions vary between countries. See source publications at the links below for further details.

Scotland

Public Health Scotland publishes data on the number of drug-related hospital stays, the number and characteristics of patients admitted to hospital, the substances involved and the geographical variations within Scotland.

Drug-related hospital statistics

Wales

Public Health Wales publish an annual statistical report on alcohol and drug use from health, social care, education and criminal justice services datasets in Wales. This includes data on hospital admissions involving use of illicit drugs. The latest report is available here:

Data mining Wales: The annual profile for substance misuse 2018 - 19

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland's Department of Health provides episode based acute hospital inpatient and day case activity data obtained from the hospital inpatient system (HIS), which is a patient level administrative data source:

Episode based activity

Work by OHID is progressing on the introduction of the Obesity related Admissions and when these are ready they will be posted in the Obesity, physical activity and nutrition profile.

See the section above on Alcohol-related hospital admissions for basic guidance on how to use the Fingertips tool.

Work by OHID is progressing on the introduction of the Smoking related Admissions and when these are ready they will be posted in the Smoking Profile.

See the section above on Alcohol-related hospital admissions for basic guidance on how to use the Fingertips tool.