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Viral Respiratory Diseases (including Influenza and COVID-19) in Scotland Surveillance Report - Public Health Scotland presents epidemiological information on respiratory infection activity, including COVID-19, across Scotland. Due to the dynamic nature of all datasets included in this report, figures contained within each update may be subject to change in future releases. Any revised figures will then be reflected within the latest update. Between 24 April and 9 October 2025, PHS are reducing the frequency of the Viral respiratory diseases (including influenza and COVID-19) in Scotland narrative report to monthly. PHS will move to weekly dashboard only updates for respiratory infection and COVID-19 surveillance. This approach aligns to the pre-pandemic one for respiratory pathogens, which typically follow a seasonal pattern. PHS will continue to monitor COVID-19 and other respiratory infection levels and reinstate the weekly narrative report before 9 October 2025 if necessary.

Scottish Cervical Screening Programme Statistics - Public Health Scotland provides a range of annual statistics relating to the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme, including coverage and uptake by deprivation and age group. In addition, information on laboratory services will be available. On 28 May 2025 Scott Heald wrote to Ed Humpherson to request a temporary suspension of the accredited official statistics status for PHS’ cervical screening statistics. The next release will be published on 29 July 2025 as official statistics in development due to methodological changes and errors with the previous data.

NHS Waiting Times - Stage of Treatment - A new website dedicated to waiting times for planned hospital appointments and admissions was launched on 10 December 2024. This provides patients on an inpatient, day case or new outpatient waiting list with an easy-to-use platform to find out how long they are likely to wait for their appointment. It replaces the corresponding webpages hosted by NHS inform and include several improvements in response to recommendations by the Official Statistics Regulator. A key improvement is an expanded set of summary statistics that will provide a better reflection of people’s actual experience of waiting times across NHSScotland. For more information see PHS's blog.

General Practice - Demographics Data Visualisation - pre announced for 6 May 2025 has been delayed to 3 June 2025 to undertake further data quality checks.

Long Term Service Demand Projections in Scotland - pre announced for 27 May 2025 has been delayed until 17 June 2025 to allow additional time needed for quality assurance checks.

The Scottish Burden of Disease - disease-specific forecasts of prevalence and burden - pre-announced for 27 May 2025 has been delayed to 24 June 2025 to allow additional time needed for quality assurance checks. A version was published temporarily in error on 27 May. PHS is working to investigate this issue and implement actions to minimise the risk of such an error being repeated. 

Routes to Cancer Diagnosis, Cancer Stage and Curative Treatment for Cancer: Information to Support Visions from the Cancer Strategy - pre-announced for 3 June 2025 has been delayed until further notice. Some unexpected patterns were apparent in the 2022 data which did not fit with long-standing recognised relationships between incidence and deprivation/mortality by deprivation. Before publishing, further investigation is required to understand whether these are genuine findings or artefacts.

Cancer Incidence in Scotland - pre-announced for 3 June 2025 has been delayed until further notice. Some unexpected patterns were apparent in the 2022 data which did not fit with long-standing recognised relationships between incidence and deprivation/mortality by deprivation. Before publishing, further investigation is required to understand whether these are genuine findings or artefacts.

Cancer Mortality - pre-announced for 10 June 2025 has been delayed until further notice. Some unexpected patterns were apparent in the 2022 data which did not fit with long-standing recognised relationships between incidence and deprivation/mortality by deprivation. Before publishing, further investigation is required to understand whether these are genuine findings or artefacts.

Rapid review of evidence about alcohol marketing and advertising: Influences on consumer attitudes and behaviours, and the effects of regulation on those behaviours - pre-announced for 1 July 2025 has been delayed until further notice to allow additional time needed to take further quality assurance steps.

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  • A&E Activity & Waiting Times

    • November 2025

    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.

  • Drug and Alcohol Information System (DAISy) - Overview of Initial Assessments for Specialist Drug and Alcohol Treatment

    • November 2025

    This report focuses on information provided by people presenting for initial assessment for specialist drug and alcohol treatment services in Scotland in 2021/22 and 2022/23. It provides an analysis of the characteristics and substance use of individuals assessed.

  • National Drug-Related Death Database Report

    • November 2025

    The National Drug-Related Deaths Database collects detailed information regarding the health and social circumstances of people who had a drug-related death (DRD) in Scotland. This is the ninth report and covers deaths registered in calendar years 2021 and 2022, with trend data from 2012.

  • Invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) Quarterly Surveillance Report

    • November 2025

    This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents quarterly data from the national surveillance of invasive group A Streptococcal infections in Scotland.

  • Drug-Related Hospital Statistics Scotland

    • November 2025

    This Accredited Official Statistics release from Public Health Scotland provides an annual update on hospital stays relating to drug use in Scotland up to the end of financial year 2024/25. The topics covered are: the number of hospital stays, the number and characteristics of patients, substances used and geographical variations. This release comprises a Publication Summary, update of the interactive dashboard and associated metadata.

  • People requiring a social care assessment and Care at Home services.

    • November 2025

    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.

  • Scottish National Audit Programme Annual Report

    • November 2025

    This is the second Scottish National Audit Programme (SNAP) annual report which aims to demonstrate how clinical audit improves patient care.

  • Delayed Discharges in NHSScotland

    • November 2025

    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.

  • Births in Scotland

    • November 2025

    Annual summary of births in Scotland including, for example, trends in caesarean section rates, age of mother for year ending 31 March 2025.

  • Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme (SCAP)

    • November 2025

    The Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme will be releasing their report on the following 5 domains of the audit. They are : adult cardiac surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention, structural heart interventions including transcatheter aortic valve intervention and cardiac rhythm management. The report will contain the same analysis and standards as the National Institute for cardiovascular Research National Cardiac Audit Programme, in line with the agreement with SG, SNAP and the clinical community. The Scottish Heart Disease Statistics report, traditionally produced and published by PHS in January of each year, have now been consolidated and integrated into the annual SCAP report.

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