Hannah Barnes
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509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
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It's so small that it bounces up and down.
It's up almost a third on last year, but down a fifth on two years ago.
Yeah, and the overall trend is down.
The most authoritative survey on underage drinking, which looks at 11 to 15-year-olds in England, shows that the proportion of these children drinking has gone down steadily over the last decade, from about 60% who say they've ever tried alcohol to about 40% in 2012.
But the young people who are drinking...
seem to be drinking slightly more.
But the BBC report itself showed that the number of under-18s attending A&E for these alcohol-related reasons appears to have steadily fallen over the last five years, from around 8,100 in 2008 to nearly 6,600 in the last year.
And actually, we found out it may have included occasions where the young person themselves hadn't had any alcohol at all.
Yeah, I mean, we called the NHS trusts, which seem to have the highest numbers of young people attending A&E for these alcohol-related conditions, and we got some surprising answers.
For instance, NHS Grampian have the second highest number for alcohol-related cases involving the under-18s in the last year.
When they're filling in their forms to record A&E attendances, they don't have a code for drunk as a skunk.
So instead...
they might add some descriptive phrases in what's called a free text field, basically notes and comments section.
Now, in response to the Freedom of Information request, NHS Grampian simply searched that free text field for words such as drunk, been drinking, alcohol or intoxicated.
And so would child has broken arm, parents intoxicated.
The ABM University Health Board in Wales told a similar story, explaining that the word alcohol could be in the child's notes if, for example, the accident had been caused by a parent who was drinking alcohol.
Well, they might also be caught in the Freedom of Information dragnet.
The liver specialist here is Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, and he said that his figure had been mentioned in newspapers and based on a survey of schoolchildren conducted by the school's health education unit.
We dug out the survey in question, and there seemed to be a few problems.
One question asks children whether they've drunk alcohol in the past week and prompts them with examples.
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