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29 April 2008
Acute Activity – Emergency and Multiple Emergency Admissions Update

Refreshed emergency and multiple emergency admissions figures to year ending 31st March 2007 including occupied bed days, crude rates and age/sex/deprivation standardised rates. These figures are broken down by health board, community health partnership (CHP) and age group.

National 10 year trend data for the numbers of patients with 1 or more emergency admission within 365 days show:

• relative stability in annual totals for patients aged 0 to 64 over this period;
• steady year on year increase in totals for patients aged 65 and older, from approximately 120,000 in 1997/1998 to around 137,000 in 2006/2007 (i.e. a 14% increase overall).

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29 April 2008
Coronary Heart Disease Statistics

Update to coronary heart disease web pages presenting trends in mortality rate from coronary heart disease among the under 75s in the most deprived areas. Information is shown for males, females and both sexes by health board and for Scotland. Although previously available as a national target in the Scottish Budget Spending Review 2007, the targets are being added to the CHD website as new tables.

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25 March 2008
Childhood Hospital Admissions and Child Mortality

This annual release includes information about children admitted to hospital in 2006/07 and children who died in 2006.

• For children under the age of 15 years, the three most common main diagnoses for planned admissions in 2006/07 were: 'Disorders of teeth, tongue and mouth' (24.2%), 'Congenital anomalies' (10.4%) and 'Neoplastic disease' (9.9%).
• For children under the age of 15 years, the three most common diagnoses for emergency admissions in 2006/07 were: 'Respiratory disorders' (23.0%), 'Symptoms and signs without a definitive diagnosis' (21.1%) and 'Injuries and poisonings' (17.7%).
• Although death in childhood is rare, mortality rates are highest amongst children under the age of one year, with a rate of 45.0 per 10,000 population in 2006; this represents approximately two thirds of all deaths in children under 15 years of age (248 out of 362). Most of these deaths occur in the first few days after birth.

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25 March 2008
Childhood immunisation uptake rates for quarter and year ending 31 December 2007.

This is the quarterly and annual update of immunisation uptake rates for children aged 12 and 24 months and 5 and 6 years. Data to 31 December 2007 and annual uptake rates by deprivation (SIMD category) are included.

In Scotland as a whole, annual and quarterly uptake rates show that the 95% target for immunisation of 2 year olds is being met and exceeded for all primary immunisations apart from the first dose of MMR (MMR1) where the uptake rates are 92.1% for the calendar year and 91.8% for the latest quarter.

Uptake rates of the Hib/MenC and PCV booster vaccinations by 24 months are reported for the first time this quarter and are 74.5% and 91.0% respectively. These vaccines were introduced to the childhood immunisation schedule in September 2006 along with other substantial changes to the programme. Uptake rates for the Hib/MenC booster are modest in comparison with other vaccinations but it is too early to draw any firm conclusions from this.

For the October-December quarter of 2007 and the calendar year of 2007, the uptake of the first dose of MMR (MMR1) by 5 years old is 94.4%, just below the World Health Organisation (WHO) target of 95%.

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25 March 2008
Drug Treatment Waiting Times by Alcohol and Drug Action Team area
October to December 2007

Data is presented for October-December 2007 on the number of clients waiting for drug treatment and the time waited for (1) clients to be offered an assessment date and (2) clients to be offered an appointment date for any drug treatment intervention.

The publication shows that in October-December 2007

• 65% (3,946 clients) of those offered an appointment for assessment were offered a date within 14 days of referral (Table 1).
• 91% (3,054 clients) of those offered an appointment for treatment were offered a date within 14 days of date care plan agreed. (Table 2)

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25 March 2008
NHSScotland Workforce Statistics

This is a quarterley update of consultant staff in post and refers to 31 December 2007.

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25 March 2008
Delayed Discharges in NHSScotland - Supplementary Information by Community Health Partnership from January 2008 census

This supplementary information, to the 26 February 2008 census publication, summarises the results of the census of delayed discharges of NHS inpatients by Community Health Partnership as at the January 2008 census.

Patients are categorised according to the main reason for their continuing stay in a hospital ward at the time of the census.

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25 March 2008
Practice Team Information (PTI) Annual Update (2006/07)

The annual update of the Practice Team Information (PTI) website shows new and updated estimates figures on activity in general practices in Scotland. Information collected from a sample of practices is used to estimate the number of patients consulting, the number of consultations and main reasons for consultations (diagnoses, symptoms, activities) in Scotland. New figures are released for 2006/07 alongside comparable figures for the previous three financial years.

• GP and practice nurses together had a total estimated 23.7 million face-to-face contacts with patients in 2006/07. This represents an increase of roughly 400,000 per year from the 22.6 million estimated for 2003/04. Practice nurses have a large share of the activity (nearly a third of the combined number of consultations).

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25 March 2008
Prescribing Statistics: Drugs indicated for the treatment of obesity, rheumatic diseases and gout (2006/07)

These are a nnual prescribing statistics showing the number and cost of prescriptions for medicines used to treat obesity and rheumatic diseases and gout in Scotland.

• A total of 104,274 items were prescribed for the treatment of obesity in Scotland during 2006/07, an increase of 14,404 prescriptions (16%) over the previous financial year.
• A total of 2.47 million non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, indicated for the treatment of arthritis and related conditions, were prescribed in Scotland during 2006/07, a decrease of 84,870 (3.3 %) from the previous year.

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25 March 2008
Reimbursement and Remuneration Paid to Dispensing Contractors: Quarterly update to December 2007

These tables show payment made to contractors who dispense prescriptions.

The main statistics included are the number of prescription items dispensed and the cost for these items together with the fees paid to the dispensers. The payments include the total gross ingredient cost (GIC); the net ingredient cost (NIC); the cost of individual fees and allowances; the gross total and patient charges.

• Compared with the calendar year 2006, the 2007 gross total remuneration/reimbursement payments increased by 2% (£21million) to £1.06Billion. This increase included £7million due to net ingredient (drugs) costs. The remainder of £14million can be attributed to fees and allowances.
• Of the gross amount paid 84% (£888million) was for drug reimbursement.

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25 March 2008
NHS Smoking Cessation Service Statistics (Scotland) 1st January to 31st December 2007

This is the second annual release of statistics from the national monitoring of NHS smoking cessation services. The report provides an analysis of quit attempts made, and quit outcomes, during the 2007 calendar year. Care should be taken in making direct comparisons between NHS board areas. Differences in the types of services provided, under-recording of data and differences in the proportion of cases ‘lost to follow-up’ all contribute to variations in findings across board areas.

Information is taken from the agreed national minimum dataset for smoking cessation services (developed by PATH, part of ASH Scotland ) and is based on 'quit attempts' made during the year. The primary data source is the National Smoking Cessation Database, established by ISD Scotland in July 2005.
Findings include:

• 41,424 quit attempts made during 2007 (46,466 in 2006).
• January was the busiest month for services.
• An estimated 3.9% of smokers in Scotland made a quit attempt with an NHS smoking cessation service during 2007.
• At 1 month follow-up - 37% had quit; 37% were still smoking and 25% were ‘lost to follow-up’/smoking status unknown.
• By 3 month follow-up the Scotland quit rate was 19%.
• There is wide variation in numbers of quit attempts made and quit outcomes across NHS boards. Reasons for this are explored in the report.
  

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