70% of admission to a&e in Ireland are alcohol related.

drdeadlift · 11-10-2011 1:54pm #1

A mate of mine i was just yapping to mentioned this to me crazy shtuff :pac:

The_Kew_Tour · 11-10-2011 1:55pm

makes me proud to be Irish

IrishZeus · 11-10-2011 1:56pm

Any source?

(I agree its probably true, but curious to see where the figure came from)

biko · 11-10-2011 1:56pm

Any chance to know if it's actually true?

4leto · 11-10-2011 1:58pm

Thank god so that is only 30% due to smoking.

drdeadlift · 11-10-2011 1:58pm

Dont have a source,its a friend of a friend thing.Doesnt shock me if its true

Duggy747 · 11-10-2011 1:58pm

And then 135% of admissions are caused by eating Smarties too quickly. :pac:

I imagine it's fairly high, don't know about 70% though.

smash · 11-10-2011 1:58pm

Is this a challenge to raise the bar by the end of the weekend?

11-10-2011 1:59pm

Your are surprised at this!!!

castletownman · 11-10-2011 1:59pm

Challenge accepted

11-10-2011 2:00pm

The figure is correct for a certain time period each week in the UK, not necessarily ireland

http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/factsheets/nhs.pdf

4leto · 11-10-2011 2:00pm

I would conjecture it is about 15 to 20% which is still quite high.

biko · 11-10-2011 2:02pm

Since this thread rests on that "70% of admission to a&e in Ireland are alcohol related" and there isn't a source I'll close it.
However if you do find a source to back this up, PM me and I'll reopen.

NB, it's actually true for UK - 70% admittance in A&E for NHS in UK during peak hours of midnight to 5am is alcohol related, but that's over there.
http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/factsheets/nhs.pdf

70% of admission to a&e in Ireland are alcohol related.

Comments