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Devon county · 2022/23

Alcohol and the liver

38.6

Age-standardised alcoholic liver disease admissions per 100,000.

Hospital admission rate for alcoholic liver disease · Persons, All ages

England: 49.4 · 2022/23 — Better

healthcards · Devon · 2022/23

What this means

The age-standardised hospital admission rate for alcoholic liver disease in Devon was 38.6 per 100,000 in 2022/23. Admissions count episodes of care, not individual people.

Source population denominator: 826,319 (Persons, All ages). The admission rate is age-standardised; admissions are episodes, not unique people.

Fingertips comparison with England: Better.

Recent observations (Devon)

  1. 2019/20: 31
  2. 2020/21: 37
  3. 2021/22: 32.5
  4. 2022/23: 38.6

These points share an indicator, sex, age and period type. Source-method changes and overlapping pooled periods can limit comparisons; see the caveats.

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Hospital admission rate for alcoholic liver disease (ID 90929)
Source:
OHID Fingertips, Local Alcohol Profiles for England (NHS hospital activity)
Area:
Devon (E10000008), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2022/23; retrieved 2026-10-11 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
Persons, All ages

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Caveats

  • Counts hospital episodes, not people: one person can be admitted more than once in a year.
  • Age-standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population; not a crude count divided by population.
  • Changes in same-day emergency care recording can affect comparisons over time.
  • Alcoholic liver disease is one subset of alcohol-related harm; other conditions are not counted here.
  • Confidence interval: 31.3 to 46.6 per 100,000.
  • Area-level figure. It says nothing about any individual.
  • Higher means more admissions. Not a measure of personal risk, and not a measure of how much an area drinks.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.