How many children and young people have presented at each of Wales's A&E departments in the last three years with their primary diagnosis being intoxication through alcohol?
There is limited reliable evidence on trends for acute alcohol consumption in children and young people from NHS accident & emergency departments.
However, the Public Health Wales report ‘Data mining Wales : The annual profile for substance misuse 2016-17, published on 25 October, shows that there were 922 hospital admissions involving young people aged under – 25 with an alcohol specific condition in 2016-17. This represented a fall of 11.6 percent compared with 2015-16 (1,043) and a fall from 1,100 in 2014-15 and 1,271 in 2013-14.
This age cohort accounted for 6.6 per cent of admissions to hospital with an alcohol specific condition in 2016-17.