Health written question – answered at on 3 November 2008.
James Brokenshire
Shadow Minister (Home Affairs)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what the cost of ambulance and paramedic journeys to treat patients where excessive alcohol consumption was a primary or secondary diagnosis was in each of the last five years;
(2) what proportion of ambulance and paramedic journeys related to patients requiring treatment following the consumption of excessive alcohol in each of the last five years.
Ben Bradshaw
Minister of State (Regional Affairs) (South West), The Minister of State, Department of Health
Data are not collected centrally on the proportion of ambulance journeys that are related to excessive consumption of alcohol, or the cost of those journeys.
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