Search

COVID-19 has focused our minds on how life-giving vaccines can be. In our latest blog, read how vaccination has been preventing severe illness and death from a range of diseases for a long time, and continues to improve quality of life.

Following the launch of our Introduction to Public Health Learning Hub, read about our upcoming virtual learning events on how we can all contribute to building better lives for people in Scotland.

Diane Stockton shares how data collected through our Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance in Education Programme is supporting a safe return to school in the new 2021 term.

Kirsty Ward from the Scottish National Audit Programme highlights how good data is helping to drive improvements in standards of clinical care for hip fracture patients.

This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) reports on systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) activity across NHS services in Scotland. Treatment activity includes the weekly number of appointments and the monthly and annual number of appointments and patients receiving treatment.

About this release This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents epidemiological information on respiratory infection activity, including COVID-19, across Scotland. Due to...

The Scottish Arthroplasty Project (SAP) aims to encourage continual improvement in the quality of care provided to joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty) patients. This is currently achieved through the auditing of routinely collected SMR01 national data in Scotland.

A&E activity: week ending 12 July 2026...

Sarra Naylor, Information Manager & National Drug-related Death Data Coordinator at Public Health Scotland (PHS), outlines how a new data-processing system, Databelt, is transforming the way suspected drug-related deaths (sDRDs) are identified, shared and used to support national and local responses. It explains why this development matters, how the system works, and what it means for improving prevention, service coordination and support for those affected by drug harms.

You have a medium abdominal aortic aneurysm...