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With cases of Tuberculosis (TB) increasing in Scotland, Hazel Henderson, Consultant in Public Health and Lead of the Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens team at PHS, has written in our latest blog about the importance of surveillance in understanding and beating this persistent, curable and preventable disease.

Viruses change over time and that means our public health response does too, which includes our vaccination programmes. Consultant in Public Health from our Vaccination and Immunisation Division Dr Daniel Chandler outlines changes to this year’s COVID-19 vaccination programme in our latest blog.

In our latest blog, Rishma Maini, Consultant in Public Health and Co-lead of Clinical Health Intelligence and Research Division at PHS, reflects on her recent attendance at the Scottish Prevention Hub’s conference in Edinburgh, which brought researchers, policy makers and community leaders together to discuss how we turn evidence into practice.

Public Health Scotland (PHS), in collaboration with the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Oxford, have published a groundbreaking study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, showing that infants under three months of age, whose mothers received the RSV vaccination during pregnancy, had around 80% reduced risk of hospitalisation due to an RSV infection compared to infants whose mothers were unvaccinated.

Alison Owens, Health Improvement Manager, discusses Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) engagement with the community food sector and the opportunities involving them in local decision-making brings —in particular in the development of Good Food Nation plans.

Flu season has arrived about a month earlier than usual in Scotland, and cases are rising rapidly. Early data across the UK suggest that a new “drifted” type of flu virus may be circulating this winter.

In our latest blog, Paul Johnston, PHS Chief Executive, reflects on the recent trends in Scotland's life expectancy data, and the work taking place through the Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland (CHES) to increase life expectancy and reduce health inequalities.

As a data and intelligence led organisation, Public Health Scotland (PHS) is committed to providing timely, relevant, and high-quality data to support public understanding of NHS performance. Today, our Director of Data and Digital Innovation and Head of Profession for Statistics, Scott Heald, talks through a major development in how we report waiting times for NHS Scotland.

With the start of the winter approaching, the Viral Respiratory team at Public Health Scotland (PHS) is gearing up their surveillance of respiratory infections. In our latest blog,...

In this blog post, the PHS COVID-19 Data Teams explain why we are changing how we present information on the virus, including the statistics on COVID-19 hospital admissions.