The number of people being admitted to hospital with a potentially deadly condition have rocketed. New figures show a 22% increase in liver disease hospital admissions in England in one year.
The disease often remains "silent" in its early stages meaning it can be hard to spot. Most forms of the disease have only a handful of symptoms and these usually only show once the liver is damaged and scarred.
Now a charity is calling for action after the new figures were released. The British Liver Trust says the data "sounded alarm bells" after it showed almost 15,000 more people being admitted to hospital with the disease in England in a single year.
