Forthcoming publications

These management information statistics form part of Scotland's Drug Early Warning System and report on recent trends in harm and service utilisation amongst people who use drugs. Data includes information on Specialist drug treatment referrals, Opioid Substitution Therapy ePrescribing, Injecting Equipment Provision, Emergency naloxone administration, Drug overdose/intoxication attendances at Emergency Departments, Drug-related acute hospital admissions, Forensic Toxicology Testing for Controlled Substances and Suspected drug-related deaths.

A report exploring how heat impacts health in Scotland, looking at both heat-related deaths and hospitalisations from 2005-2024. We evaluate impacts at national and health board levels, and show vulnerability to heat among different population groups. To do this, we link hospital admissions and deaths data to weather data from MetOffice, and use a Distributed Lag Non-Linear Model (DLNM) to calculate the relative risk of hospitalisation and death, timeseries of attributable admissions and deaths. This will be accompanied by interactive indicators on the ScotPHO Profiles tool.

This annual release by Public Health Scotland focusses on congenital conditions. It provides current best estimates of the number of babies with serious conditions among pregnancies ending in Scotland in 2021-2023. In June 2023 the CARDRISS register began registering babies with relevant conditions from pregnancies ending in January 2021 onwards. Previously best estimates of the occurrence of major congenital conditions among pregnancies Scotland were derived from the Scottish Linked Congenital Condition Dataset (SLiCCD), which was created by Public Health Scotland in 2018 as an interim solution until CARDRISS was launched in 2023. Like CARDRISS, SLiCCD was maintained by Public Health Scotland and it drew from existing national health records to provide best estimates of the occurrence of major congenital conditions among pregnancies ending in Scotland from 2000-2021.

This report contains analysis based on data submitted by all NHS Gender Identity Clinics (GICs) in Scotland in 2024/25. It focuses on referrals, number of patients seen by a specialist for the first time and length of completed wait, and number of individuals waiting and length of ongoing wait at quarter end (30th June, 30th September and 31st December 2023 and 31st March) in each year. It also contains some information on return patient activity.

This publication is part of the PHS evaluation of the Scottish Government’s Residential Rehabilitation programme. This report presents detailed client-level information about who accessed residential rehab in Scotland in calendar year 2023, and the (short-term) outcomes those individuals achieved.

This publication provides information on the number of people waiting for a social care assessment, the number of people waiting for a care at home service and the hours of care required to be delivered to meet the needs of people both currently receiving care at home and waiting for care at home services.

An update on the uptake of HPV vaccinations in MSM

Analysis of Care Home Census 2024/25. Including number of Care Homes, Residents, Registered Places. More granular information on Long Stay Residents. Finance Information is also included.

Update of Waiting Times Statistics, monthly waiting times statistics for the stage of treatment - Summary of waiting times and waiting lists in the acute sector of NHS Scotland. 26th August 2025 marked the final quarterly release, with a move to monthly reporting planned from 28th October 2025. This increase in frequency is in response to the current high level of public interest in hospital waiting times and reduces the time lag between the end of the reporting period and the release of data to around 4 weeks. The statistics reported will align to revised criteria in calculating waiting times contained in updated guidance issued by the Scottish Government in December 2023. The first monthly October release will be accompanied by analysis of the changes on the most recent data. For further information please see recent correspondence between PHS and the Office for Statistics Regulation.

The National Infectious Respiratory Diseases Health Inequalities Plan sets out Public Health Scotland’s strategy to identify, understand, and address disparities in respiratory infections across socioeconomic, ethnic, geographic, and protected characteristic groups.