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This guide is for parents and carers of children up to the age of 3 years and 4 months. It provides information on the routine immunisations that are offered to help protect them from serious childhood diseases. It describes these diseases and explains why young children need protection against them. It also answers some of the most common questions about immunisations. The updated version illustrates the routine immunisation schedule for children born on or after 1 July 2024 and can be issued to parents from June 2025.

This leaflet is for parents whose baby has been referred to the audiology clinic for a further hearing test and explains why this test is needed and what is involved.

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The aim of this work was to capture real-world evidence from Scotland on the use of maintenance poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) of adult patients with advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer, following completion of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) requested this work which describes current SACT use in this population. This work will assist SMC members when considering submissions for rucaparib (SMC2799).

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.

Guidance and data on people who are clinically ready for discharge, but cannot leave hospital because the necessary care, support, accommodation, or funding is not available

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.

About this release This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents estimates of the number of people aged 15 to 64 years old with opioid dependence, along with estimates of...

A&E activity: week ending 15 June 2025...