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A Topic
Abortions Sexual Health
About Our Data About our Statistics
ACaDMe Scottish Health Information Service
ACaDMe Data Mart Scottish Health Information Service
ACaDMe National Comparative Scottish Health Information Service
Accessibility About ISD
Accident & Emergency (A&E) Data Mart Emergency Care
Accident & Emergency (A&E) National Comparative Emergency Care
Accident and Emergency (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Accident and Emergency Attendances Emergency Care
Accidents - see under Unintentional Injuries Emergency Care
Acute Hospital Care (previously Acute Activity) Hospital Care
Admissions, Hospital Hospital Care
Adolescent Psychiatry (Hospital activity) Mental Health
Adverse events Quality Improvement
Alcohol Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
Alcohol Brief Interventions Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
Allied Health Professionals National Dataset Data Definitions and Reference Service
Anaesthetics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Angiographies Hospital Care
Angioplasties Hospital Care
Arthroplasty Project, Scottish Quality Improvement
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B Topic
BADS Hospital Care
Beds Hospital Care
Benchmarking: National Benchmarking Project Finance
Better Together, Scotland's Patient Experience Programme Quality Improvement
Births and Babies Maternity & Births
Bowel cancer Cancer
Bowel cancer screening Scotland Cancer
Breast cancer Cancer
Breast cancer screening Scotland Cancer
Breastfeeding Child Health
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C Topic
CAMHS Workforce CAMHS Workforce
Cancer Cancer
Cancer Audit Cancer
Cancer Clinical Trials Cancer
Cardiac Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Cardiology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Cardiothoracic Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Care Home Staffing Model Health and Social Community Care
Care Homes Health and Social Community Care
Careers - ISD About ISD
Cataract operations Hospital Care
CDSIS Clinical Data Structure and Implementation Support
Cervical screening scotland Cancer
CHD Heart Disease
Child Psychiatry (Hospital activity) Mental Health
Children Child Health
Childsmile Dental Care
Chiropody/Podiatry Hospital Care
Cholecystectomy Hospital Care
Cirrus (map) About ISD
Clinical Coding: Guidelines Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
Clinical Data Structure and Implementation Support Clinical Data Structure and Implementation Support
Clinical Oncology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Clove Data Definitions and Reference Service
CMR - see under Practice Team Information General Practice
Coding and Terminology Services Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
Coding, Clinical: Guidelines Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
Colorectal Cancer Cancer
Common Dimensions Scottish Health Information Service
Complaints relating to ISD About ISD
Complaints Statistics (NHSScotland) Quality Improvement
Confidentiality Data Protection and Confidentiality
Continuing Care  Health and Social Community Care
Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR) - see under Practice Team Information General Practice
Coronary artery bypass Hospital Care
Coronary Heart Disease Heart Disease
Corporate Data Warehouse Scottish Health Information Service
Costs Finance
Costs book Finance
Customer Support Desk About ISD
Cystoscopy Hospital Care
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D Topic
Data Collection Data Collection
Data Development Clinical Data Structure and Implementation Support
Data Dictionary  Data Definitions and Reference Service
Data Marts - ISD Scottish Health Information Service
Data Quality Assurance Data Quality Assurance
Data Quality, Managing Data Quality Assurance
Data Schemes About our Statistics
Data, About Our About our Statistics
Day Case, Inpatient and Outpatient Activity Hospital Care
Deaths Deaths
Definitions and Standards Data Definitions and Reference Service
Delayed Discharges Health and Social Community Care
Dental Dental Care
Dependency Health and Social Community Care
Deprivation Deprivation
Dermatology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Diabetes General Practice
Diagnostic Radiology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Disclosure Control Data Protection and Confidentiality
Drug Tariff, Scottish Prescribing & Medicines
Drugs Misuse Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
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E Topic
Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Emergency Admissions Hospital Care
Emergency Care Emergency Care
Emergency contraception Sexual Health
Emergency Department Waiting Times Waiting Times
End of Life Care Health and Social Community Care
Endocrinology & Diabetes (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Endoscopy Hospital Care
Ethnicity Equality and Diversity
Evadis Prescribing & Medicines
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F Topic
Falls Emergency Care
Forensic Psychiatry (Hospital activity) Mental Health
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G Topic
Gastroenterology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
General Dental Service Dental Care
General Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
General Ophthalmic Services Eye Care
General Practice General Practice
General Psychiatry (Hospital activity) Mental Health
General Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Genito-Urinary Medicine Sexual Health
Geriatric Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Governance, Information Data Protection and Confidentiality
GP consultations General Practice
GP Other than Obstetrics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
GP practices General Practice
GP surgeries General Practice
GP workforce General Practice
GUM statistics Sexual Health
Gyle Square (Map) About ISD
Gynaecological Laparoscopy Hospital Care
Gynaecology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
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H Topic
Haematology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Health and Social Care Information Health and Social Community Care
Health, Public Public Health
Heart disease in scotland Heart Disease
Heart disease statistics Heart Disease
HEAT targets HEAT
Hernioplasty Hospital Care
Hip replacement Hospital Care
HMUD Prescribing & Medicines
Homoeopathy (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Hospital Medicines Utilisation Database Prescribing & Medicines
Hospital Standardised Mortality rates Quality Improvement
HRG Finance
HSMR Quality Improvement
Hysterectomy Hospital Care
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I Topic
Immunisation Child Health
Immunology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Improving Mental Health Information Programme Mental Health
Indicator of Relative Need Health and Social Community Care
Infant Deaths Maternity & Births
Infant Feeding Child Health
Infectious Diseases Health conditions portal
Information Governance Data Protection and Confidentiality
Information Requests Information Requests
Injuries, Unintentional Emergency Care
Inpatient, Day Case and Outpatient Activity Hospital Care
International Statistics About our Statistics
ISD - Organisation About ISD
ISD - Programmes About ISD
ISD terminology Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
ISD(s)1 (Data Collection) Hospital Records Data Monitoring
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J Topic
JAG/GRS Quality Improvement
Jobs in ISD About ISD
Joint Future Health and Social Community Care
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K Topic
Knee replacement Hospital Care
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L Topic
Learning Disabilities Health and Social Community Care
Linking Health Information  Scottish Health Information Service
Location Codes Data Definitions and Reference Service
Long Stay Care Of Older People Hospital Care
Long Term Conditions Health and Social Community Care
Lung Cancer Cancer
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M Topic
Mackenzie Building (map) About ISD
Malignancy Cancer
Managing Data Quality Data Quality (Assurance)
Map (Cirrus) About ISD
Map (Gyle Square) About ISD
Map (Mackenzie Building)   About ISD
MAS (Minor Ailments Scheme) Prescribing & Medicines
Mastectomy Hospital Care
Media Monitoring Media Monitoring
Medical Oncology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Medical Paediatrics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Medical Profiles Quality Improvement
Medical Record Linkage (MRL) Scottish Health Information Service
Mental Health Mental Health
Minor Ailments Scheme (MAS) Prescribing & Medicines
Miscarriages Maternity & Births
Mortality Deaths
MRL (Medical Record Linkage) Scottish Health Information Service
Multiple Admissions Hospital Care
Multiple Sclerosis Register (MSR) Quality Improvement
Muskuloskeletal Access Audit (MSK) Quality Improvement
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N Topic
National Audit Projects Quality Improvement
National Benchmarking Project Finance
National Clinical Dataset Development Programme  Clinical Data Structure and Implementation Support
National Dental Inspection Programme  Dental Care
National Medicines Utilisation Unit Prescribing & Medicines
National Prospective Cancer Audit Cancer
National Reference Files Data Definitions and Reference Services
National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) Finance
National Statistics About our Statistics
National Tariff, Scottish  Finance
Navigator Scottish Health Information Service
Neonate Maternity & Births
Nephrology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Neurology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Neurosurgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
New Ways Waiting Times
News and Releases About ISD
Newsletters About ISD
NHS waiting times Scotland Waiting Times
NHS Complaints Scotland Quality Improvement
NHS Resources (non-workforce) Finance
NHS Scotland Performance  HEAT
NHS Scotland waiting times Waiting Times
NMUU Prescribing & Medicines
Number of nursing & midwifery students Workforce
Nurse-led Activity Data Hospital Care
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O Topic
Obesity (children) Child Health
Obstetrics Maternity & Births
Official Statistics About our Statistics
Older People Health and Social Community Care
Older People in the Community Health and Social Community Care
OPCS codes Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
Operations, Hospital Hospital Care
Ophthalmics Eye Care
Ophthalmology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Oral health Dental Care
Oral Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Oral Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Organisation - ISD About ISD
Orthodontics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Orthopaedics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Outpatient, Inpatient and Day Case Activity Hospital Care
Outpatients (SMR00) Data Mart Scottish Health Information Service
Outpatients (SMR00) National Comparative Scottish Health Information Service
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P Topic
PAC Data Protection and Confidentiality
Paediatric Dentistry (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Palliative Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Perinatal Mortality Maternity & Births
Plastic Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Policies (statistics) About our Statistics
Population Population
Practice Nurses - consultations with patients General Practice
Practice nurses - workforce General Practice
Practice Team Information (patient consultations) General Practice
Pregnancy Maternity & Births
Prescribing and Dispensing Prescribing & Medicines
Primary care (Eye Care) Eye Care
Primary care (General Practice) General Practice
Primary care (Prescribing) Prescribing & Medicines
PRISMS Prescribing & Medicines
Privacy Advisory Committee Data Protection and Confidentiality
Programmes, ISD About ISD
Prospective Cancer Audit Cancer
Prostate Cancer Cancer
Protocols (statistics) About our Statistics
Psychiatry (Hospital activity) Mental Health
Psychiatry of Old Age Mental Health
Psychology Workforce Psychology Workforce
PTI (practice team information) General Practice
Public Health Public Health
Public Health Observatory, Scottish (ScotPHO) Public Health
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Q Topic
QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) General Practice
Quality Hub Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement Quality Improvement
Quality of Data Data Quality Assurance
Quarterly HSMR Quality Improvement
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R Topic
Radiology, Diagnostic (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Read coding PTI Team
Record Linkage Scottish Health Information Service
Reference Files, National Data Definitions and Reference Services
Register for Updates About ISD
Rehabilitation Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Relative Need Health and Social Community Care
Renal Registry, Scottish Quality Improvement
Requests (for Information) Information Requests
Resource Allocation Formula Finance
Resources, NHS (non-workforce) Finance
Respiratory Medicine (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Restorative Dentistry (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Rheumatology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Risk Prediction Health and Social Community Care
Risk Stratification Health and Social Community Care
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S Topic
SAIVMs Quality Improvement
SALSUS Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
SAP Quality Improvement
SASM Quality Improvement
SBR Scottish Birth Record
ScotPHO Public Health
Scottish Arthroplasty Project (SAP) Quality Improvement
Scottish Audit of Intracranial Vascular Malformations (SAIVMs) Quality Improvement
Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality (SASM) Quality Improvement
Scottish Birth Record  Scottish Birth Record
Scottish Care Resource Use Groups Health and Social Community Care
Scottish Drug Tariff Prescribing & Medicines
Scottish ECT Accreditation Network (SEAN) Quality Improvement
Scottish Health Information Service Scottish Health Information Service
Scottish Health Information Service for Research Scottish Health Information Service
Scottish Health Resource Utilisation Groups Health and Social Community Care
Scottish Health Service Costs Finance
Scottish Health Survey Public Heath
Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group (SICSAG) Quality Improvement
Scottish National Tariff Finance
Scottish Patients At Risk of Readmission and Admission Health and Social Community Care
Scottish Perinatal and Infant Mortality and Morbidity Report Maternity & Births
Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) Public Heath
Scottish Renal Registry (SRR) Quality Improvement
Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA) Quality Improvement
Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) Quality Improvement
Screening, Bowel Cancer
Screening, Breast Cancer
Screening, Cervical Cancer
SCRUGs Health and Social Community Care
SEAN Quality Improvement
Secondary Uses Service (SUS) Scottish Health Information Service
see also Sexually Transmitted Infections Sexual Health
Sexual Health Sexual Health
Sexually Transmitted Infections Sexual Health
SHIS Scottish Health Information Service
SHIS (Scottish Health Information Service) Scottish Health Information Service
SHIS-R (Scottish Health Information for Research) Scottish Health Information Service
SHRUGs Health and Social Community Care
SICSAG Quality Improvement
Small Numbers Data Protection and Confidentiality
Smoking Cessation Public Heath
SMR (Activity statistics) Hospital Care
SMR (Data collection) Hospital Records Data Monitoring
SMR Completeness Data Hospital Records Data Monitoring
SMR00 (Outpatients) Data Mart   Scottish Health Information Service
SNOMED-CT Browser Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
SNS (Support Needs System) Child Health
Social Care Information Health and Social Community Care
SPARRA Health and Social Community Care
SPIMMR Maternity & Births
SRR Quality Improvement
SSCA Scottish Healthcare Audits
Staff (NHS workforce) Workforce
STAG Quality Improvement
Standards and Definitions Data Definitions and Reference Service
Statistical publications About our Statistics
Statistics Disclosure Protocol Data Protection and Confidentiality
Statistics, Governance About our Statistics
Statistics, National About our Statistics
Statistics, Official About our Statistics
Stillbirths Maternity & Births
STISS Sexual Health
Stroke Stroke
Substance Misuse Programme Drugs and Alcohol Misuse
Suicide Suicide
Support Needs System Child Health
Surgical Mortality, Scottish Audit of Quality Improvement
Surgical Paediatrics (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Surgical Podiatry (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Surgical Profiles Quality Improvement
SUS (Secondary Uses Service) Scottish Health Information Service
System Watch Emergency Care
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T Topic
Tariff, Scottish Drug Prescribing & Medicines
Tariff, Scottish National Finance
Teenage Pregnancy Maternity & Births
Teenage Pregnancy - sexual health Sexual Health
Terminology Services Clinical Coding and Terminology Services
The Joint Advisory Group for Gastro-Intestinal Endoscopy / Global Rating Scale (JAG/GRS) Quality Improvement
Thoracic Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
Trauma Audit Group, Scottish Quality Improvement
Tumour Cancer
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U Topic
UK Statistics About our Statistics
Unintentional Injuries Emergency Care
Unscheduled Care Emergency Care
Updates, Register for About ISD
Urology (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
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V Topic
Varicose vein operations Hospital Care
Vascular Surgery (Hospital activity) Hospital Care
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W Topic
Waiting Times and Lists Waiting Times
Women and Children's Health Maternity & Births
Workforce Workforce
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