Publications

This specimen patient group direction (PGD) template has been produced by Public Health Scotland to assist NHS boards.

NHS boards should amend/a​​dapt this Patient Group Direction template and must ensure that the Patient Group Direction is considered and approved in line with local clinical governance arrangements for Patient Group Directions. ​​​​​

This report presents provisional information on laboratory reports of norovirus in Scotland compared to the same time last year and the average for the same time period of the previous five years.

This release is a weekly report on epidemiological information on seasonal influenza activity in Scotland. Due to COVID health care services are functioning differently now compared to previous flu seasons so the consultation rates are not directly comparable to historical data.

This release provides data on hospital onset COVID-19 infections in Scotland. A system for monitoring COVID-19 is critical to tracking hospital transmission. This will inform control measures. Please note: this release is produced by National Services Scotland (NSS) who work very closely with PHS.

The serology work stream aims to estimate the proportion of people who have antibodies to coronavirus ("seroprevalence") in the general population of Scotland and to see if this changes over time.

Data for COVID-19 hospital onset mortality in Scotland.

This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland

Key statistics on attendances at Accident and Emergency (A&E) including trends in the number of attendances and admissions and performance against the 4 hour standard

Uptake and findings of the AAA screening programme.