All forthcoming outputs will be published at 09:30am unless otherwise stated.
Viral Respiratory Diseases (including Influenza and COVID-19) in Scotland Surveillance Report -
Public Health Scotland (PHS) continue to consider timely ways to provide the public with official statistics. Between April and October 2024, Public Health Scotland (PHS) will update the narrative report once a month. The narrative report will be produced on 11 July 2024, 8 August 2024 and 5 September 2024. This approach aligns to the pre-pandemic one for respiratory pathogens, which typically follow a seasonal pattern. However, amid rising COVID-19 trends, the interactive dashboard updates will move from a once-a-month to a weekly publication until the 8th of August. If appropriate, the dashboard will then revert to monthly updates. PHS will continue to monitor COVID-19 and other respiratory infection levels and reinstate the weekly narrative report before September 2024 if necessary.
Vaping Related Hospital Admissions - This publication, preannounced for release on 25 July and then November 2023, will focus on hospital admissions where ICD-10 code U0.70 has been recorded as a primary or secondary diagnosis. To enable further analyses this publication will be delayed January 2024. ** This has been further delayed to August 2024 for the same reason.
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.
PHS Fair Work Policy Briefing preannounced for June 2024, will be further delayed to August 2024, this is due to extra time needed to enable further analyses of the evidence.
National Drug Related Deaths Database publication (2019 & 2020) scheduled for 4 June 2024 has been delayed until 17 September 2024 due to quality assurance of the data and implementing the recommendations of the drug death reporting Short Life Working Group.
Acute Leukaemia Cancer Quality Performance Indicators publication previously pre-announced for 25 June 2024, has been delayed until 23 July 2024 due to the unavailability of data.
Alcohol brief interventions; a review of strategy and recommendations for policy pre announced for 2 July 2024 has been delayed until further notice as more time is required to complete the report’s quality assurance processes.