Forthcoming publications

The data displays in the Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data (SPBAND) Dashboard have been developed in response to commitment 67 in The Best Start: five year plan for maternity and neonatal care that: national level maternity and neonatal dashboards should be developed to facilitate benchmarking and reduce variations in care. SPBAND includes data on: Pregnancy - number of pregnancies booked; mean gestation at booking; number of terminations; mean gestation at termination; and Births and Babies - location of extremely pre-term births; induction of labour; type of birth; third- and fourth-degree perineal tears; pre- and post-term births; stillbirths and infant deaths; Apgar scores.

Attendances trend - national, board and hospital level, Compliance - 4 hours standard at national, board and hospital level, 4 / 8 / 12 hour waiting times, source of referral, demographic data, time of day, day of week and discharge destination at national, board and hospital level. Additional info on multiple attendances, rates, and admissions to be added.

The publication provides a monthly update on the number of hospital bed days associated with delayed discharges for a full calendar month. Information is also provided on the number of people experiencing a delay in discharge from hospital at the monthly census point. The data relate to people aged 18 and over.

This publication will report on anti-seizure medicines prescribed in women and men under the age of 55 and also during pregnancy. The report will focus on medicines known to be teratogenic.

Annual update of Quality Outcome Measure 10: Percentage of last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting.

The Health in the Early Years (HEYS) dashboard displays data on early child development and infant feeding by month/quarter.

Statistics on NHS Board/Hospital cancellations of operations for patients who have been booked for an elective scheduled theatre operation.

This is the monthly publication of statistics on Primary Care Out of Hours Activity, including Health Board breakdowns. This publication will include Out of Hours Primary Care data for 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/2026. Data will be presented alongside A&E data.

This release of weekly data includes official statistics collected by PHS on attendances at Emergency Departments (EDs) across Scotland. The information presented in this release includes the number of attendances and 4, 8 and 12 hour waits at EDs.

Summary of General Practice In-hours activity using data visualisation. Due to issues with the timeliness of data supply and data quality concerns with the data last month, the planned 2 September 2025 release was cancelled and therefore this release will now include data for July and August 2025.