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THE NEW MAYOR HAS PLEDGED FURTHER RESEARCH TO INTO WORRYING UNDERAGE ALCOHOL STATISTICS IN NORTH TYNESIDE 16:57, 21 May 2025Updated 16:59, 21 May 2025 The new North Tyneside Mayor says she

wants to tackle alcohol-related hospital admissions among children. As part of Mayor Karen Clark’s pledge to reduce local social, economic and health inequalities, an analysis into troubling

juvenile drinking statistics has been commissioned. Council documents in December last year revealed that North Tyneside has the highest rate of admissions for alcohol-specific conditions

among under-18s across all council areas in England. According to the data, the North Tyneside rate of hospital admission last year was 75.5 per 100,00, "significantly higher” than the

North East rate of 48.7 and the England rate of 26.0. Alcohol related deaths in North Tyneside stand at 49.1 per 100,000, which is in line with the North East average but higher than the

national England rate of 39.7. Mayor Clark said: “We already are doing a wide range of work around tracking that. Certainly the reduction of alcohol and messaging around the abuse of alcohol

is one of the key areas of work under the public health service here in North Tyneside. “We are a bit of an outlier and we look at ways to address it, it doesn't distinguish between

are they different people being admitted to hospital or are they the same people on re-admission. So it might not necessarily be, and we don’t think it is the case, that we have lots more

people. We might have a case where we have some of the same people being re-admitted to hospital. Article continues below “I have asked for further review of those statistics so we can

determine for sure what that situation is.” Tackling dangerous levels of alcohol consumption will form only one part of the Mayor’s ambition to make North Tyneside a ‘Marmot Borough’. This

entails the local authority working with the Institute of Health Equity to reduce health disparity by cracking down on social ills, like the lack of high quality jobs, poor environment and

improving early life provisions for children. Article continues below Mayor Clark said: “It's a huge challenge in general closing the gap on health inequalities is not something that

can be achieved overnight, its a real long term vision, but we are charting our progress towards that goal in lots of different ways and that will include the stats on alcohol and hospital

admission but a whole range of other things as well. “Why are people getting involved in these harmful behaviours and I dont think you can separate that from lack of opportunity, deprivation

or poverty. I want young people in our borough to feel included to know how important they are.” JOIN OUR BREAKING NEWS AND TOP STORIES WHATSAPP COMMUNITY Join our Breaking News and Top

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