News and Updates

News

Welcome to the revised ISD inpatient, day case and outpatient activity pages. This new presentation aims to give easier navigation to summary information around patients treated on an outpatient or inpatient/day case basis within NHSScotland.

This section of our website provides the latest information about outpatient, inpatient and day case activity within NHSScotland based on nationally available information routinely drawn from hospital adminstrative systems across the country. 

Information on emergency admissions and multiple emergency admissions is normally published on an annual basis as part of ISD's Acute Activity, Waiting Times and Waiting Lists (quarterly and annual data) publication. However, to reflect improved national completeness for hospital discharge summaries and to bring published data in line with current performance measures, this update precedes the scheduled May update.

Our Statistical Publication Notice explains the key points from this release.

Updates 

The analyses below have been updated to include the most recent available data.

Information	Time Period
Outpatients	Financial years 1997/98 to 2006/07
Inpatient and Daycases	Financial years 2002/03 to 2006/07
Change in clinical practice	Financial years 2003/04 to 2006/07
Work in progress	Financial years 1997/98 to 2006/07

 

National Statistics is a quality marker applied to statistics certified by the UK Statistics Authority as compliant with its Code of Practice for Statistics. The "List of Tables" page indicates which statistics within this section are National Statistics.