Publications

A healthy and diverse workforce is more productive and essential for a resilient economy. Read our advice for employers.

The audit of critical care is a co-ordinated quality improvement programme which provides data, analysis and feedback to raise standards and continued improvement in patient outcomes.

The Climate Impact Indicators (CII) Feasibility Report aims to inform Public Health Scotland’s work to produce a set of climate health impact indicators and supports PHS’ Climate Change and Sustainability programme. The report explores the feasibility of developing indicators to assess the impacts of climate change on the health of the population in Scotland. It includes a summary of how health is affected by climate change, in particular the impacts of heat, cold, flooding, and air quality. Additionally, the report outlines definitions and parameters for proposed indicators to monitor the impact of climate on health and describes the data sources that can be used to create these indicators. The report recommends that an initial set of indicators are developed focused on the direct impacts of heat and cold periods on health. It is planned that Scotland’s first set of climate health impact indicators are published on the ScotPHO profiles website as a new section in the autumn of 2025.

A briefing resource about the Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland (CHES). CHES is a partnership between Public Health Scotland (PHS), local authorities, NHS boards in Aberdeen City, North Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire, and University College London’s Institute of Health Equity (IHE).

Patient group direction template for the administration of COVID-19 vaccines to individuals aged under 18 years.

Patient group direction template for the administration of COVID-19 vaccines to individuals aged 18 years and over.

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.

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.