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Public Health Scotland (PHS) and Macmillan Cancer Support are working together to use data to improve the understanding of the impacts of cancer and its treatment on the cancer population.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) and Macmillan Cancer Support are working together to investigate why there were more cases of advanced stage (stage 3) cervical cancer in 2020, despite the fact that the overall rate of cervical cancer fell.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) and Macmillan Cancer Support are working together to use data to improve the understanding of the impacts of cancer and its treatment on the cancer population.

National systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) data dictionary...

Closing statement on Module 3 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the 4 nations of the UK

PHS closing statement on Module 4 – Vaccines and therapeutics

This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) reports on systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) activity across NHS services in Scotland. Treatment activity includes the weekly number of appointments and the monthly and annual number of appointments and patients receiving treatment.

About this release Public Health Scotland (PHS) continue to consider timely ways to provide the public with official statistics. Between April and October 2025, Public Health...

This report presents provisional information on laboratory reports of norovirus in Scotland compared to the same time last year and the average for the same time period of the previous five years.

This specimen patient group direction (PGD) template has been produced by Public Health Scotland to assist NHS boards. NHS boards should amend/adapt this PGD template and must ensure that the PGD is considered and approved in line with local clinical governance arrangements for PGDs.