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Viral Respiratory Diseases (including Influenza and COVID-19) in Scotland Surveillance Report - Public Health Scotland presents epidemiological information on respiratory infection activity, including COVID-19, across Scotland. Due to the dynamic nature of all datasets included in this report, figures contained within each update may be subject to change in future releases. Any revised figures will then be reflected within the latest update. Between 24 April and 9 October 2025, PHS are reducing the frequency of the Viral respiratory diseases (including influenza and COVID-19) in Scotland narrative report to monthly. PHS will move to weekly dashboard only updates for respiratory infection and COVID-19 surveillance. This approach aligns to the pre-pandemic one for respiratory pathogens, which typically follow a seasonal pattern. PHS will continue to monitor COVID-19 and other respiratory infection levels and reinstate the weekly narrative report before 9 October 2025 if necessary.

NHS Waiting Times - Stage of Treatment -A new website dedicated to waiting times for planned hospital appointments and admissions was launched on 10 December 2024. This provides patients on an inpatient, day case or new outpatient waiting list with an easy-to-use platform to find out how long they are likely to wait for their appointment. It replaces the corresponding webpages hosted by NHS inform and include several improvements in response to recommendations by the Official Statistics Regulator. A key improvement is an expanded set of summary statistics that will provide a better reflection of people’s actual experience of waiting times across NHSScotland. For more information see PHS's blog.

Self-Directed Support; Support provided or funded by local authorities in Scotland -Due to data quality issues found in the 22/23 statistics, this publication, previously preannounced for release has now been delayed until further notice.

Specialist alcohol and drugs treatment - understanding the reasons behind a reduction in the number of referrals in Scotland
This publication, pre-announced for 3 December 2024, has been delayed until further notice. This is due to further time needed for quality assurance purposes.  

NHS Pharmacy First Scotland - pre announced for 8 April 2025 is delayed to 6 May 2025 to allow further time needed for quality assurance checks.

Scottish Atlas of Healthcare Variation - pre announced for 8 April 2025 is delayed to 6 May 2025 to allow additional time to resolve ongoing submission and quality issues impacting the data due to be included in this publication release.

General Practice - Demographics Data Visualisation - pre announced for 6 May 2025 has been delayed to 3 June 2025 to undertake further data quality checks.

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  • National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP)

    • October 2025

    This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides information on findings of the Detailed Inspection of P7 children, and the Basic Inspection of Primary 1 and Primary 7 children in school year 2024/25. The NDIP is carried out annually under the auspices of the Scottish Dental Epidemiology Co-ordinating Committee on behalf of NHS Boards.

  • Unintentional Injuries

    • October 2025

    Summary of emergency admissions and for unintentional injuries and falls up to March 2025 and deaths up to 2024.

  • Cancelled Planned Operations

    • October 2025

    Statistics on NHS Board/Hospital cancellations of operations for patients who have been booked for an elective scheduled theatre operation.

  • Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme (SCAP)

    • November 2025

    The Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme will be releasing their report on the following 5 domains of the audit. They are : adult cardiac surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention, structural heart interventions including transcatheter aortic valve intervention and cardiac rhythm management. The report will contain the same analysis and standards as the National Institute for cardiovascular Research National Cardiac Audit Programme, in line with the agreement with SG, SNAP and the clinical community. The Scottish Heart Disease Statistics report, traditionally produced and published by PHS in January of each year, have now been consolidated and integrated into the annual SCAP report.

  • Drug and Alcohol Information System (DAISy) - Overview of Initial Assessments for Specialist Drug and Alcohol Treatment

    • November 2025

    This report focuses on information provided by people presenting for initial assessment for specialist drug and alcohol treatment services in Scotland in 2021/22 and 2022/23. It provides an analysis of the characteristics and substance use of individuals assessed.

  • Invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) Quarterly Surveillance Report

    • November 2025

    This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents quarterly data from the national surveillance of invasive group A Streptococcal infections in Scotland.

  • Out of Hours Primary Care Services in Scotland

    • November 2025

    This is the monthly publication of statistics on Primary Care Out of Hours Activity, including Health Board breakdowns. This publication will include Out of Hours Primary Care data for 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. Data will be presented alongside A&E data.

  • A&E Activity & Waiting Times

    • November 2025

    Attendances trend - national, board and hospital level, Compliance - 4 hours standard at national, board and hospital level, 4 / 8 / 12 hour waiting times, source of referral, demographic data, time of day, day of week and discharge destination at national, board and hospital level. Additional info on multiple attendances, rates, and admissions to be added.

  • Scottish National Audit Programme Annual Report

    • November 2025

    This is the second Scottish National Audit Programme (SNAP) annual report which aims to demonstrate how clinical audit improves patient care.

  • National Drug-Related Death Database Report

    • November 2025

    The National Drug-Related Deaths Database collects detailed information regarding the health and social circumstances of people who had a drug-related death (DRD) in Scotland. This is the ninth report and covers deaths registered in calendar years 2021 and 2022, with trend data from 2012.

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