Primary Care in-hours General Practice activity visualisation
As at 30 April 2024
Official statistics in development
- Published
- 25 June 2024
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents General Practice (GP) activity data extracted from participating practices across NHS Scotland from January 2018 to the end of April 2024 by NHS board and Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).
This exploratory work aims to illustrate the type of activity information captured within GP clinical systems. Not all activity is recorded on the clinical systems and information on the complexity or duration of the activity is currently unavailable. Therefore, the activity reported does not represent all the work happening within a primary care setting.
Please note the data contained within this visualisation is not directly comparable to other work on GP activity ongoing in NHS England, or NHS Wales (NWIS), due to differences in methodology of counting and classifying GP activity.
The data remains subject to change and monthly figures and comparisons should be used with caution.
An in-practice dashboard is also available for practices to allow them to view their activity data down to individual staff member and undertake quality work; guidance documents have also been developed and issued to encourage more uniform recording practice. Engagement with practices is ongoing to investigate and solve data anomalies. Data quality indicators are being developed to allow better understanding of the data.
Main points
In April 2024, the total level of activity in the GP practices which returned data was approximately 7.5 million encounters. This is 0.3% higher than the 12-month rolling average activity (Apr. 23 to March. 24).
In April 2024, 37% of encounters were classified as Direct. The data suggests that 80% of these Direct encounters were physical appointments and 20% were virtual.
Note: Full definitions of the encounter class are available on the dashboard.
Further information
Data presented in the visualisation are subject to change.
Where it is identified data are excluded from that months release due to technical issues, these data will be updated the following month.
The next release of this publication will be 30 July 2024.
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