Table.

Specialist alcohol treatment access ratios across the UK, 2016–19

	Number accessing treatment for alcohol only*in 2018–19	Number of F10 hospital admissions due to alcohol†in 2018–19	Treatment access ratio in 2018–19	Treatment access ratio in 2017–18	Treatment access ratio in 2016–17
Scotland	26 536	27 474	1·0	1·0	1·1
Wales	8344	12 266	1·5	1·5	1·5
England	75 555	220 731	2·9	2·6	2·4
Northern Ireland	2560	12 548	4·9	3·9	3·9
UK	112 995	273 019	2·4	2·2	2·1

The treatment access ratio is the number of F10 admissions to National Health Service hospitals divided by the number of people accessing specialist alcohol treatment. The lower the ratio the more favourable the level of access to treatment.

^*Excludes concurrent drug misuse as a reason for treatment.

^†Primary or secondary diagnosis of F10 in the International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision: mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol. This measure is a proxy of the prevalence of alcohol dependence in the general population.⁵⁸