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Scotland has some of the best health service data in the world. Few other countries have information which combines high quality data, consistency, national coverage and the ability to link data to allow patient based analysis and follow up. Information Services Division (ISD) is Scotland's national organisation for health information, statistics and IT services. An introduction to the many important roles we play in Scotland's Health Care can be found in the About ISD section.
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Latest Statistics
26 January 2010
Dental Statistics
Hospital Dental Services and Registrations
- The percentage of the Scottish population registered with an NHS GDS dentist is 83.0% and 65.4% for children and adults respectively as at 30 September 2009. This is an increase from 81.7% for children and 63.0% for adults registered as at 30 June 2009.
- There has been a 7% and 15.2% increase in the number of registrations for children and adults respectively from 30 September 2008 to 30 September 2009.
- NHS Ayrshire & Arran, Dumfries & Galloway, Forth Valley, Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Shetland and Tayside are currently meeting the HEAT target (80% of all 3-5 year old children to be registered with an NHS dentist by 2010/11).
- The single most common reason for a planned (elective) hospital admission to a dental specialty is extraction of multiple teeth. This procedure accounts for approximately 42% of all elective admissions where a procedure took place.
26 January 2010
General Practice - GP workforce and practice population statistics to 2009
- There has been a steady increase in the headcount of GPs contracted to work in Scottish practices over the last 5 years, rising from 4,456 in 2004 to 4,941 in 2009 (an increase of 10.9%).
- An increasing proportion of contracted GPs are female and in 2009, for the first time, females outnumbered males; with a 50.7% share of the total headcount, compared with 45.4% in 2004.
- There has been a large rise in the headcount of salaried GPs, from 188 in 2004 to 480 in 2009 (an increase of 155.3%).
- There has been a marked increase in the headcount of GP registrars (now referred to as specialist trainees) between 2004 and 2009, from 282 in 2004 to 472 in 2009 (an increase of 67%). This is related to an increase in the number of training places available and changes in the training arrangements from 2008. From 2008 GP trainees work in practices during two stages of their training whereas historically registrars would work in practice primarily at the end stages of their training.
26 January 2010
ScotPHO diabetes website section update
- Diabetes was the main reason for 6,687 hospital admissions in Scotland in 2008 and contributed to a total of 82,517 admissions during that year.
- Diabetes was the underlying cause of 730 deaths in Scotland in 2008 and contributed to a total of 4,052 deaths.
- It is well known that diabetes is under-recorded in hospital discharge records and in death certificates; these figures are therefore likely to considerably under-estimate the true number of admissions and deaths
26 January 2010
Scottish Perinatal and Infant Mortality and Morbidity Report 2008
- Births in Scotland continue to rise, as they have every year since 2002.
- The rate of twin births (16 per 1000 births) is the highest ever recorded.
- The perinatal mortality rate (7.4 per 1000 births) is the lowest ever recorded.
- The rate of stillbirths has remained constant at between 5 and 6 per 1000 births for the last two decades.
Also published was:
Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) Report on Antimicrobial Resistance and Use in Humans
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