Forthcoming publications

The ScotPHO website is partially updated each quarter with different topics updated in different quarters.

Update of quarterly Waiting Times Statistics for Chronic Pain Waiting Times.

Summary of General Practice In-hours activity using data visualisation

The purpose of this investigation was to engage with key stakeholders to examine possible reasons for the patterns observed locally and address what measures are most important to describe the level of need and unmet need in the population.

These management information statistics form part of Scotland's Drug Early Waring System and report on recent trends in harm and service utilisation amongst people who use drugs. Data includes information on Specialist drug treatment referrals, Opioid Substitution Therapy ePrescribing, Injecting Equipment Provision, Emergency naloxone administration, Drug overdose/intoxication attendances at Emergency Departments, Drug-related acute hospital admissions, Forensic Toxicology Testing for Controlled Substances and Suspected drug-related deaths.

The data displays in the Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data (SPBAND) Dashboard have been developed in response to commitment 67 in The Best Start: five year plan for maternity and neonatal care that: national level maternity and neonatal dashboards should be developed to facilitate benchmarking and reduce variations in care. SPBAND includes data on: Pregnancy - number of pregnancies booked; mean gestation at booking; number of terminations; mean gestation at termination; and Births and Babies - location of extremely pre-term births; induction of labour; type of birth; third- and fourth-degree perineal tears; pre- and post-term births; stillbirths and infant deaths; Apgar scores.

The data displays in the Health in the Early Years (HEYS) dashboard have been developed to replicate some of the content previously displayed on the wider impacts of COVID dashboard, which was decommissioned in October 2023. Data is available on early child development and infant feeding.

This new release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents quarterly data from the national surveillance of tuberculosis in Scotland. This is addition to the full TB surveillance report published annually.

This publication provides information on the number of people waiting for a social care assessment, the number of people waiting for a care at home service and the hours of care required to be delivered to meet the needs of people both currently receiving care at home and waiting for care at home services.

The publication provides a monthly update on the number of hospital bed days associated with delayed discharges for a full calendar month. Information is also provided on the number of people experiencing a delay in discharge from hospital at the monthly census point. The data relate to people aged 18 and over.