The report used a revised methodology for estimating alcohol-related hospital admissions
following a review by Public Health England, the Department of Health and the Health and
Social Care Information Centre. Consequently estimates of alcohol-related hospital
admissions for 2012-13, reported in this publication, are not comparable to estimates in
earlier years’ publications. A time series of estimates of alcohol-related hospital admissions,
calculated using the revised methodology, for the years 2003-04 to 2011-12 were made
available as additional tables on the 1st October 2014. They provide a comparable 10 year
time series from 2003-04 to 2012-13.