Booze-related admissions rise at Scunthorpe General Hospital for third successive year

“filbert. You're quite right and in some European countries it's a legal requirement that occupants and businesses are responsible for cleanliness up to the road edge. Pity it doesn't apply here but then the fatties and other lazy so & so's would say "why should I have to clean someone else's mess up?"I agree, but it isn't a perfect world and if you prefer to leave the outside of your property looking like a sh**hole then it says everything about you (Everest Road residents please note!)”

“I still think the best things to do is make people pay for any transport to hospital and bring back sensible licencing hours. Also pubs should be made to clean the fag ends from the pavement in front of their property.”

“Apologies - I put the word 'incident' into me own head. I blame the vodka”

“You introduced the word "incidents"? Obviously there are incidents otherwise schemes like this would not be considered necessary but it still remains a fair point that journalism should be subject to scrutiny and analysis. Otherwise, the political point becomes more important than any facts contained in the report. In my analysis of the factual structure contained here I note:

1. A one percent rise in alcohol-related admissions in North Lincolnshire.
2. £66,000 spent of health workers to deal with Alcohol-related crime.
3. Overall £288,000 spent on the arrest referral scheme.
4. People attend hospitals for alcohol-related illnesses or attend whilst intoxicated.

The rest is pure conjecture, causal assumptions and filler. Shoddy work.”

“With the greatest of respect for the sentiments, but f it was home related then there would be no need for the words Police and Incidents - this is pub related.”

“Has anyone actually been out in Scunthorpe recently? The pub trade is dying. This figure means nothing and the image is not supported by any actual evidence. Recession, population increases and unemployment are never considered to be factors in this phenomena. It seems to me that pubs are considered to be the source of this hospitalisation without any evidence to suggest that these rises are in anyway linked to pubs at all. Recent research suggests that home drinking has increased markedly since 2000. With "convenience, cost, safety, autonomy and stress relief" being factors in this choice. I would suggest that far less "knee-jerk" reactionary opinion be sought and far more research undertaken. The simple conclusion is often the wrong one. It's far too easy to assume that it's the people that are unable control themselves or are downright negligent. This is not only the wrong approach, but it is openly hostile and risks increased alienation and division within a society that is already suffering as a result of social and economic factors. If this paper seeks to unite the people then I suggest that the right approach would be to examine and challenge existing assumptions and seek to improve society based on proper research. The last thing this town needs at this difficult time is rhetorical attacks seeking to divide and conquer all social ills. Source: Oxford Journals.”

“Well said TFiLive. Time more emphasis was put on drinking issues and less on smoking - and no, I am not a smoker. Drinking problems cost this country a fortune and cause hardship and heartache for many families. If they fall in the street, leave them there - it's self inflicted Why should police, hospitals and other services have to effectively be "on call" 24 hours a day sorting stupid drunks out. Time we went back to closing pubs at 11 p.m. and banning drinking on the street !”

“£288,000 wasted trying to tackle booze incidents? Here's an idea - stop ushering drunks across fenced off roads from one state of oblivion to the next. It is STILL illegal in the country for a pub to knowingly serve someone who is drunk - however being the Law and enforcing the Law are a world apart. No surprise that the incident increases started 5 minutes after Tony Blair brought in 24 hour pubs and his Continental Cafe Culture - so far the closest Britain has come to a Continental Culture, is p*****g in the streets”