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  • Healthy life expectancy in Scotland falls to near ten-year low

    • 30 July 2025
    • News stories
    • Population health

    New figures from National Records of Scotland show the time people in Scotland can expect to live in good health, without serious illness or disability, has fallen to a near ten-year low.

  • Cervical screening and health inequalities

    • 06 November 2023
    • Content pages
    • Conditions and diseases

    All women in Scotland, aged 25 to 64, are invited to have a cervical screening test

  • Cervical screening statistics

    • 06 November 2023
    • Content pages
    • Conditions and diseases

    All women in Scotland, aged 25 to 64, are invited to have a cervical screening test

  • Protect your child from serious diseases

    • 28 May 2025
    • Publications
    • Children
    • Immunisations

    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.

  • Guidance for professionals

    • 13 October 2023
    • Content pages
    • Conditions and diseases

    Streptococcal infections are bacterial infections and can infect any age group.

  • Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) Methodology

    • 01 August 2025
    • Publications
    • Healthcare audits
    Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) Methodology...
  • JCVI recommendations

    • 26 June 2025
    • Publications
    • Immunisations

    ​​​​The Scottish Vaccine Update provides current information and practical advice about immunisation policy, practice and vaccine supply in Scotland for front line health professionals.

  • Documentation

    • 19 February 2025
    • Content pages
    • Healthcare audits

    Improves the quality of care, overall experience and long term outcome of patients with significant injuries

  • Scottish stroke improvement programme annual report 2025

    • 12 August 2025
    • Publications
    • Healthcare audits
    About this release The Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme 2025 annual national report presents data from the Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA). This describes the quality of...
  • Scottish hip fracture audit - reporting on 2024

    • 05 August 2025
    • Publications
    • Healthcare audits

    The publication will report on data collected from all hospitals across Scotland for patients who sustained a hip fracture and were admitted to hospital.