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Information about surveillance and monitoring programmes about substance use in Scotland

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.

This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland

The serology work stream aims to estimate the proportion of people who have antibodies to coronavirus ("seroprevalence") in the general population of Scotland and to see if this changes over time.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) is working with NHS boards on a precautionary basis to ensure optimal vaccine coverage and protection against polio and advising the public to ensure polio vaccines are up to date. This particularly applies to parents of young children who may have missed an immunisation opportunity.

This information is for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.

A new study from Public Health Scotland in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, published today, investigates a large outbreak of COVID-19 among students resident at university accommodation in Scotland at the start of the autumn 2020 term.

The main findings of this year’s Scottish Multiple Sclerosis Register (SMSR) report are that 578 new patients diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) were added to the Register and despite the challenges of the pandemic, the proportion of newly-diagnosed people in contact with an MS specialist nurse within 10 working days of diagnosis increased to 88. 2%.

Summary statistics for people with a new diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.