Alcohol consumption adding to liver problems

NHS South Yorkshire is supporting the ‘Love Your Liver This January’ campaign to put a spotlight on liver disease risk factors and the steps people can take to keep the liver healthy.

It comes after the latest figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities show hospital admissions for liver disease across England remain at a record high, with about 85,665 recorded in the year to March 2023 up 51 per cent from ten years prior.

In Barnsley, there were some 435 hospital admissions for liver disease in 2022/23, up from 330 the year before.

It was also an increase from 265 hospital admissions in 2012/13.

All figures are rounded to the nearest five.

Of the hospital admissions across England last year, 27,085 had a primary diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease.

This included 140 in Barnsley.