Publications

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 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.

PHS Board papers for 18 May 2022.

This release provides data on hospital onset COVID-19 infections in Scotland. A system for monitoring COVID-19 is critical to tracking hospital transmission. This will inform control measures. Please note: this release is produced by National Services Scotland (NSS) who work very closely with PHS.

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.

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

The Scottish Drug Misuse Database report provides an analysis of the characteristics and substance use of individuals assessed for specialist drug treatment in Scotland. This update includes data up to 2020/21.

This publication by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents information on patients who have been cared for as inpatients or day cases in mental health facilities of Scottish hospitals; specifically information where a patient's case of care was recorded as including a diagnosis of a learning disability or autism or was within the Learning Disability treatment speciality and where that patient died during their period of care. This information is presented by financial year from 2015/16 to the most recently available data, a partial year for 2021/22 to December 2021.

Weekly attendance at emergency departments and performance against the 4 hour waiting time standard

​This guidance is to support those working in social, community and residential care settings to give advice to their staff and users of their services about COVID-19.