Excess Weight Blamed for Eighth of Hospital Admissions for Women Over 50

Excess weight blamed for eighth of hospital admissions for women over 50
While the researchers the Million Women Study run from University of Oxford have not put a figure on the overall cost, the bill to the taxpayer would amount to an annual sum of well over £500m based on the cost of more than £250 a day for an NHS bed …
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Concern over Liverpool's binge-drinking, drug-taking over 40s
Ann Hanlon, service director for addiction services at Mersey Care NHS Trust, said a massive 70% of the patients treated by the Liverpool Community Alcohol Service were over the age of 40. She said: “We do see a lot of it. “With older people it tends …
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NHS boss says intensive care is swamped by alcohol cases
A third of intensive care beds at weekends are taken up by patients critically ill from alcohol, according to the NHS's head of critical care. Dr Bob Winter … Dr Winter called for an urgent change in the culture of drinking and said the Government …
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