Drink and drug related hospital admissions and treatment (FOI)

​Request

A

The number of drink related admissions to the Hospital for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

B

The number of drug related admissions to the Hospital for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

C

An age breakdown of drink related admissions to the Hospital for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

D

An age breakdown of drug related admissions to the Hospital for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

E

A breakdown of the reasons why patients were admitted to the Hospital for drink and drug related issues between 2011 and 2015.

F

Treatment given to patients who were admitted for drink related issues between 2011 and 2015.

G

Treatment given to patients who were admitted for drug related issues between 2011 and 2015.

H

The number of patients requiring follow-up treatment or appointments for drink related admissions following treatment for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

I

The number of patients requiring follow-up treatment or appointments for drug-related admissions following treatment for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year.

J

How many patients were referred to other services as a result of their drink or drug admission for years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015: a breakdown for each year. 

Response

The answer to questions A to E is provided in the tables below. 

Due to low activity relating to the individual codes requested, all alcohol and all drug codes have been grouped to avoid data being supressed. 

Where numbers are fewer than five, the data is not provided in order to avoid the identification of individuals.

All diagnosis codes were used in the primary position indicating the main cause of the inpatient admission. 

Note: all codes were used in primary position only. 

Alcohol codes

F10.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Acute intoxication

F10.1: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Harmful use

F10.2: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Dependence syndrome

F10.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Withdrawal state

F10.4: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol: Withdrawal state with delirium

Drug codes

F11.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids: Withdrawal state

F12.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids: Acute intoxication

F12.5: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids: Psychotic disorder

F15.0: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of other stimulants, including caffeine: Acute intoxication

F17.1: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco: Harmful use

F17.3: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco: Withdrawal state

T40.1: Poisoning: Heroin

T40.2: Poisoning: Other opioids

T40.3: Poisoning: Methadone

T40.7: Poisoning: Cannabis (derivatives)

T43.0: Poisoning: Tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants

T43.1: Poisoning: Monoamine-oxidase-inhibitor antidepressants

T43.2: Poisoning: Other and unspecified antidepressants

T45.0: Poisoning: Antiallergic and antiemetic drugs

T48.5: Poisoning: Anti-common-cold drugs

T54.9: Toxic effect: Corrosive substance, unspecified

T55.X: Toxic effect of soaps and detergents

T56.0: Toxic effect: Lead and its compounds

T56.8: Toxic effect: Other metals

T58.X: Toxic effect of carbon monoxide

T59.8: Toxic effect: Other specified gases, fumes and vapours

T61.2: Toxic effect: Other fish and shellfish poisoning

T62.0: Toxic effect: Ingested mushrooms

T62.2: Toxic effect: Other ingested (parts of) plant(s)

T62.9: Toxic effect: Noxious substance eaten as food, unspecified

Outpatient and follow-up appointments are not coded in the same detail as inpatient admissions. Therefore the Department is unable to answer questions F to J as a manual records trawl would be required to extract the information from individual patient notes. This would exceed the 12.5 hour limit specified in regulations. 

Exemptions and/or refusals applied to this request:

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Article 25 Personal information 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if: 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.