'Radical action is needed" to save the NHS, a leading North East health figure has warned during the week the health service has turned 75.
Alice Wiseman, director of public health at Gateshead Council, said that it was time for a "change of approach" and that population wellbeing was seen as more important than "the profit of health harming industry". Ms Wiseman is a leading voice fighting the harm caused by alcohol, heading up the work of the national association of directors of public health on this topic.
This comes as figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) highlight how the North East continues to have by far the highest rates of hospital admissions due to liver disease across the country. Our region sees 190.1 people admitted per 100,000 in the population at large.
