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Following the publication of stark figures from Public Health Scotland (PHS) on the impact physical inactivity has on the population, Ruth Glassborow, Director of Place and Wellbeing at PHS, reflects on the opportunity that a new framework published today will provide.

The public hearing for the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry Module 3 (Impact of the pandemic on healthcare systems in the four nations of the UK) commenced in September 2024.

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This is the learning and organisational development (L&OD) strategy for PHS. It will be aligned to the PHS workforce plan, with a particular focus on ensuring that our workforce has the right capabilities to deliver our vision, maximise efficiency, minimise the skills gap and enhance our overall effectiveness in tandem with the changing needs of PHS.

This report covers the complaints and feedback received by Public Health Scotland in the year 2023/24. The report summarises what action has been taken to improve our products or services as a result of feedback, concerns or complaints received over the year.

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.

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

Patients who have had a planned operation cancelled

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 is the second report on anti-seizure medicines (ASMs) prescribed to females in Scotland aged 0-54 and pregnant women....