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This updated factsheet describes the disease, its diagnostic features, control and treatment, and provides a picture of its incidence in the UK and around the world.

Minimum unit pricing (MUP) evaluation...

NHS Health Scotland was tasked by the Scottish Government to lead the evaluation of Scotland's alcohol strategy through the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme. It has been a collaboration between NHS Health Scotland and National Services Scotland Information Services Division. This report follows four previous annual reports, which have been published since 2011 and several discreet study reports.

This is the 1st in our series of inequality briefings. It focuses on what health inequalities are and ways in which we can reduce them.

PHS Board papers for 8 February 2024

About this release This release by Public Health Scotland presents a summary of the Scottish Electroconvulsive therapy Accreditation Network (SEAN) data for 2020. A full SEAN...

This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents a summary analysis of all samples submitted for the respiratory surveillance for the 2021/2022 season.

Overview of the programme, the components of the SNAP annual governance process and structures to provide stakeholders with visibility and understanding of the activities undertaken.

About this release This short report from Public Health Scotland (PHS) describes the purpose, process and meetings of the Naloxone Reporting Short Life Working Group (SLWG). This...

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.