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PHS Board papers for 23 March 2022.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) has published two reports examining alcohol retail sales data, as part of the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) has developed two sets of mental health indicators, one set for adults and one for children and young people (CYP). These are designed to inform and guide action to improve population mental health in Scotland, at local and national level. They will support monitoring of Scottish Government's mental health transition and recovery plan, which aims to respond to the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Children and Young People Mental Health Indicators will help to identify important information, at local and national level, about mental health outcomes and the determinants of these outcomes. The resources are Children and young people indicator set, including notes on data sources and Children and young people rationale document, explaining what is covered in the indicator set and why

The Adult Mental Health Indicators will help to identify important information, at local and national level, about mental health outcomes and the determinants of these outcomes. The resources are Adult Mental Health Indicator set, this includes notes on data sources, adult rationale document, explaining what is covered in the indicator set and why and a summary note of a discussion from a community workshop used to inform the adult indicator set

This report looks at the two main sources of off-trade alcohol retail sales data. The report assesses how estimates of population-level alcohol consumption may differ when these different sources are used .

This report looks at sources of under- and overestimation when using retail sales data to estimate how much alcohol is consumed at a population level.

Weekly attendance at emergency departments and performance against the 4 hour waiting time standard

This release is a weekly report on epidemiological information on seasonal influenza activity in Scotland. Due to COVID health care services are functioning differently now compared to previous flu seasons so the consultation rates are not directly comparable to historical data.

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.