Health Areas

Learning Disabilities 
Information on inpatients in hospitals, or in nursing homes; or who attend hospital on a day patient basis, or as outpatients; and on the learning disability nurse workforce.

Improving Mental Health Information Programme
The programme was formed to improve the fragmented and poorly developed mental health information within Scottish care settings, in order to help develop service provision and benefit overall service user/client care.

Substance Misuse - Alcohol
The Alcohol Information Scotland website provides a wide range of information on alcohol for Scotland. This includes statistics, research, publications, key policy documents and practice guidelines as well as links to useful websites.

Substance Misuse - Drugs
This site provides information, statistics and research on drugs misuse in Scotland. Our target users are policy makers, professionals, researchers, employers and the wider community.

Woman & Children's Health
Promoting and protecting the health, and well being, of mothers and children is key to preserving the health of current, and future, generations.

Related Areas

Data Development 
Aims to keep pace with the ways, range and scope of service delivery and clinical practice and reflect these in the development of NHS data.

Equality & Diversity
Deals with the collection of more personal information from patients/carers, ensures the NHS in Scotland is treating people fairly and ensures everyone is benefiting from NHS services irrespective of age, gender, race, religion/faith belief, sexual orientation, disability or sensory impairment.

Information Governance
Is a framework, which brings together all the statutory requirements, standards and best practice that apply to the handling of information.

Scottish Local Authorities Compendium of Health Statistics - SLACS
The presentation of health and social care data by Scottish local authority helps to inform joint working between health and social care partners across NHSScotland and local authority boundaries.

National Clinical Dataset Development Project (NCDDP)
Supports clinicians to develop interoperable national data standards to facilitate the implementation of integrated care records across NHS Scotland.

Scottish Public Health Observatory
Is a collaboration that brings together key national organisations involved in public health intelligence in Scotland.