PHS FOI 2025-002308
- Date of request
- 14 December 2025
- Date of response
- 08 January 2026
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2025-002308
- Performance and monitoring
Request
Please provide the following information for the most recent available reporting period (and, where available, for each week since 1 October of the current flu season):
- “The total number of laboratory-confirmed influenza cases in Scotland.”
- “The total number of hospital admissions attributable to influenza, broken down by NHS Health Board.”
- “The average daily number of hospital beds occupied by patients with influenza, nationally and by Health Board.”
- “The total number of staffed acute hospital beds available in Scotland during the same reporting periods.”
- “Any internal definitions or thresholds used by Public Health Scotland to describe influenza activity as:
“pressure”
“severe pressure”
“emergency”
- “Any modelling, briefing papers, or guidance issued to the Scottish Government or NHS Boards relating to influenza bed occupancy and system capacity this season.”