Amy Winehouse will return home this morning after spending the night in a London hospital.

The singer was admitted to University College Hospital (UCH) after what her father described as an adverse reaction to medication she had been given. Winehouse was diagnosed with an emphysema-like condition during another stay in hospital last month.

She was in good spirits after the night at the hospital, a spokeswoman for UCH said today.

“Our doctors decided to keep her overnight for observation. She had a comfortable night and will be discharged today,” she said, adding that specific arrangements had not yet been made for her return home.

Winehouse, who won critical acclaim and a host of awards for her album Back to Black, has suffered a series of health set-backs this year and was apparently filmed smoking crack cocaine at her home in January.

Her father Mitch, who was at her bedside yesterday, insisted that her latest illness was a minor condition. Outside the hospital last night, he held up a bag of fast food from a fried chicken restaurant and told the waiting media: “This is how serious it is.”

Police had earlier been forced to push back paparazzi photographers who had crowded around the ambulance that took the soul singer from her home in Camden to the hospital.

A spokeswoman for London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at approximately 8.40pm to an address in NW1 to reports of an adult female taken unwell.

“We sent an ambulance and a fast response car and the patient has been taken to hospital.”

Winehouse, 24, has been distressed by the incarceration of her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who was convicted of assault and bribery charges, and spent a period of time in a rehabilitation centre earlier this year.

In June, she appeared at Glastonbury and the Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert.

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