HC Deb 07 July 1981 vol 8 c102W
30. Mr. Newens

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases of alcoholism were dealt with through the National Health Service during the last year for which figures are available.

Sir George Young

Central records are not available of admissions of patients who present themselves with alcohol-based problems not separately recorded, or patients treated by general medical practitioners or as out-patients or day-patients. The number of admissions to National Health Service mental illness hospitals and units in England in 1979, where a primary diagnosis of alcoholic psychosis or alcohol dependency syndrome was recorded, was 12,759.