Publications

A&E activity: week ending 12 January 2025...

A pilot of a whole system approach to tackling gambling harm in Glasgow took place between 2022 and 2023. A systems map was created through stakeholder engagement in support of this work; discussions with lived experience, academia, public and third sectors were undertaken in its development. Its purpose is to illustrate the complexity of the local system and how many factors touch on gambling harm. It is a historic document that may be of interest as other local areas seek to address gambling harm.

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...

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.

RADAR publishes ad-hoc alerts related to new trends, drugs and harms. Alert 2024/09 was published on 9 May 2024, due to an increase in detections of xylazine in the unregulated drugs market.

RADAR publishes ad-hoc alerts related to new trends, drugs and harms

Guidance aimed at preventing, or minimising the risk of, Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli infection.

Patients who have had a planned operation cancelled

About this release This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) uses information from the National SACT dataset. The request made by NCMAG was on the use of: (i) pomalidomide in...