ALCOHOL CHARITY HELPS TO CUT HOSPITAL RE-ADMISSIONS

By: Laura Payne

A TOWN charity has helped slash the number of people being re-admitted to hospital for help with alcoholism.
At University Hospital in Coventry 331 patients - 80 per cent - of those who received support from Swanswell over the past year were not re-referred to alcohol help services.

Swanswell, based on Corporation Street, said by working with patients while they are in hospital they have cut down the number of people who are re-admitted.

And it is striving to do the same elsewhere by rolling out the service to other areas.

In April the Observer reported there had been a 16 per cent rise in the number of people admitted to hospital in Rugby with problems linked to alcohol. This was an increase from 1,006 in the first half of 2008/9 to 1,171 during the same period in 2010/11.

Elsewhere in Warwickshire the figures were even more worrying with a 48 per cent rise in Warwick district and a 28 per cent increase in Stratford.

And a report from the NHS Information Centre released last week showed nationally admissions have reached over one million, an increase of 12 per cent from 2008/09 to 2009/10.

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