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  • Scottish Bowel Screening Programme - a guide for professionals

    • 19 September 2024
    • Publications
    • Cancer
    • Conditions and diseases
    • Screening
    Scottish Bowel Screening Programme - a guide for professionals...
  • Whistleblowing Annual Report 2023 to 2024

    • 26 September 2024
    • Publications
    • Corporate information

    This report covers PHS whistleblowing activity during 2023/24 and developments to expand the way that staff can raise any concerns in the organisation.

  • Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (annual) - year ending 31 March 2024

    • 24 September 2024
    • Publications
    • Hospital care

    Key statistics on different aspects of hospital care, sourced from hospital administration systems across Scotland. These include information on trends in outpatient activity; inpatient and day case activity; and beds statistics. Additionally, trend information on the medical diagnoses of patients, the number and type of surgical procedures carried out, and the level of emergency hospital admissions are also provided.

  • Scottish renal registry - annual report 2024

    • 24 September 2024
    • Publications
    • Healthcare audits
    About this release This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents the Scottish Renal Registry (SRR) 2024 annual national report. The SRR aims to improve the care of patients...
  • Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in Scotland: evaluation plan

    • 22 July 2022
    • Publications
    • Screening

    This paper sets out the plan for evaluating the implementation of NIPT into the Scottish pregnancy screening programme.

  • Primary Care in-hours General Practice activity visualisation - As at 31 August 2024

    • 01 October 2024
    • Publications
    • Primary care

    This release by Public Health Scotland provides information on encounters that have taken place in general practice in Scotland from January 2018. It contains summary statistics by HSCP and health board on the number of encounters by the derived fields 'encounter group', 'encounter class' and 'Healthcare professional group'. It is experimental data and analysis.

  • Out of hours primary care services in Scotland - January 2017 to August 2024

    • 01 October 2024
    • Publications
    • Hospital care
    • Primary care

    Urgent healthcare provided in primary care setting when GPs are closed.

  • Cancelled planned operations - Month Ending 31 August 2024

    • 01 October 2024
    • Publications
    • Waiting times

    Patients who have had a planned operation cancelled

  • Scottish pregnancy, births and neonatal data dashboard - A new home for maternity and neonatal data visualisations 1 October 2024

    • 01 October 2024
    • Publications
    • Births and maternity

    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’. For the most part the data shown is the same as in the Pregnancy and Births and babies sections of the previously-provided Wider Impacts of COVID dashboard, which is being updated for the last time at the start of Sep 2023 and then retired. The Stillbirths and infant deaths data is now based on data released quarterly by National Records of Scotland. The Location of extremely preterm deliveries now includes babies born at 22 weeks gestation as well as those born at 23-26 weeks inclusive.

  • Anti-Seizure Medicines in Pregnancy 1 October 2024

    • 01 October 2024
    • Publications
    • Births and maternity
    • Pharmacy and prescribing
    About this release This release by Public Health Scotland is the second report on anti-seizure medicines (ASMs) prescribed to females in Scotland aged 0-54 and pregnant women....