ScotPHO - diabetes

Statistical publication Notice

26 January 2010

Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) website section updates ? Diabetes update.

INTRODUCTION

The ScotPHO website contains comprehensive information on a wide range of topics including behaviour, health, well being and disease and clinical risk factors. Along with summary data and statistics, the website provides background information, interpretation, policy notes, commentaries on data sources, references and links to further information.

Data in the diabetes section of the ScotPHO website has been updated to include estimates for 2008. In particular, data on (1) the number of hospital stays where diabetes was the principal or any diagnosis, and (2) the number of deaths where diabetes was the underlying cause of death or was mentioned as a contributing to the death.

KEY POINTS

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.

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MAIN CONTACTS:

Colin Fischbacher
Head of ScotPHO Programme
0131 275 7063
colin.fischbacher@nhs.net

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PRE-RELEASE ACCESS:

Under terms of the "Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008", ISD are obliged to publish information on those receiving Pre-Release Access ("Pre-Release Access" refers to statistics in their final form prior to publication). The standard maximum Pre-Release Access is five working days. Shown below are details of those receiving standard Pre-Release Access and, separately, those receiving extended Pre-Release Access.

Standard (five day) Pre-Release Access:

Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division)
NHS Board Chief Executives
NHS Board Communication leads

Extended Pre-Release Access:

Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division)
This extended Pre-Release Access is given to a small number of named individuals in the Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division). This Pre-Release Access is for the sole purpose of enabling that department to gain an understanding of the statistics prior to briefing others in Scottish Government (during the period of standard Pre-Release Access).

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