Forthcoming publications

Annual running costs of NHS Scotland year ended 31st March 2023

This report is an assessment of the demand for Care at Home services provided by Health and Social Care Partnerships. The information shows the number of people waiting on an assessment for a package of care to allow them to live at home or in the community and also the number of hours of care that has been assessed but not yet delivered. The information is presented by people waiting in hospital or waiting at home/community for the care at home service to be delivered.

This data release by Public Health Scotland reports on waiting times for people accessing specialist drug and alcohol treatment services in the latest financial year quarter. In 2011, the Scottish Government set a Standard that 90% of people referred for help with problematic drug or alcohol use will wait no longer than three weeks for specialist treatment that supports their recovery.

Waiting times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across Scotland. Progress to the standard of 18 weeks referral to treatment is reported on.

This release reports on performance against the Scottish Government's Local Delivery Plan (LDP) standard that all those newly diagnosed with dementia should have a minimum of twelve months post-diagnostic support. Figures reported in this release are up to 2021/22.

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.

Quarterly Cancer Waiting Times statistics for the 62-day standard: patients urgently referred with a suspicion of cancer to first cancer treatment; and for the 31-day standard: all patients regardless of the route of referral from date of decision to treat to first cancer treatment by NHS Board, Cancer Network and Cancer Type.

Waiting times for Psychological Therapies in Scotland. From December 2014 patients should have to wait no more than 18 weeks from referral to treatment. This publication will show progress towards that standard.

All immunisation web pages are updated to reflect the most recent quarterly surveillance data on meningococcal disease, invasive pneumococcal disease, Haemophilus influenzae, rotavirus, pertussis, herpes zoster, human papillomavirus, measles, mumps, and rubella disease in Scotland. These can be accessed on the PHS website at https://publichealthscotland. scot/publications/

This is a data file containing information on the prescribing of items from Scottish General Practices, dentists and hospitals subsequently dispensed in the community and which community pharmacies items were dispensed from. The file will be released quarterly but will contain monthly data.