Accident and Emergency Department

							Accident and Emergency Department

8.9                     The Royal London Hospital Accident and Emergency (A&E)
                        Department carried out a one week audit of alcohol related
                        presentations to the accident and emergency department from
                        5th to 11th May 2006. The data gathered during this audit
                        showed that a large proportion of A&E presentations were
                        alcohol related. Furthermore for particular categories of
                        presentations such as psychiatric, deliberate self harm (which
                        includes intoxication) and injuries sustained from assaults, the
                        majority were alcohol related.


Ambulance data

8.10                    Data on alcohol-related ambulance call outs from the 1st January
                        2006 to 31st January 2007 was supplied by London Ambulance
                        Service. There were a total of 1186 call outs coded as alcohol
                        related during that time; nearly three quarters (74%) were to
                        males. Alcohol-related callouts represent approximately 3% of
                        all callouts, however this may be an under representation due to
                        data reporting problems.

8.11                    Call outs increased at the weekend, peaking on Saturdays.

 Figure 1. Alcohol related ambulance call outs by day of week 06-07


                        Alcohol-related ambulance call outs by day of
                                   week (Jan 06 to Jan 07)

                  250

                  200
      call outs




                  150

                  100

                  50

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                          Mon     Tue     Wed      Thu     Fri     Sat    Sun
                                                  day