Accident and Emergency Departments: Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs

Department of Health written question – answered at on 16 November 2016.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Shadow Secretary of State for Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of children attending accident and emergency departments with conditions relating to (a) drug and (b) alcohol abuse in the last six years.

Photo of Nicola Blackwood Nicola Blackwood The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

It is not possible to identify drug and alcohol-related attendances in the ‘A&E dataset’.

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