Scottish Local Authorities Compendium of Health Statistics

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. This is part of the wider topic area of Joint Future, which aims to provide better and more integrated Community Care Services by developing joint working between Local Authorities, NHSScotland and other partner organisations.

• The information is likely to be useful to health professionals, relevant staff in planning and social care in Scotland's local authorities as well as health and social care staff in Community Health Partnerships (CHPs).
• Also of related interest are the community health and well-being profiles on the ScotPHO  (Scottish Public Health Observatory) web site.  These provide detailed tabular and graphical information on health, demographics and socio-economics at small area level.

It is two years since this publication was last updated. The latest edition (2004/05) updates the 2002/03 edition and is entirely web-based.  Some data from previous years have been revised since the last publication. Tables have been updated to include the most up to date information available on the following topic areas. 

Details of Datasets

Presentation of the newly published data in section 1 to 4 is in an Excel workbook[505 KB] with tables which can be printed out. The links in sections 1 to 4 lead to a number of worksheets in the same file, hence the correct worksheet for the topic area needs to be selected. Pivot tables [320 KB] are given for tables in section 1 to 3 in order to facilitate trend and comparative analysis. Sections 5 to 9 contain links to relevant data already published elsewhere.

All tables wth the exception of Tables 3a and 3b present data on an annual basis. As such, some rates are based on very small numbers and hence caution should be applied to any interpretation.

1. Accidents in children

There is no routinely available or national or local data collection for the incidence of unintentional injury, with the result that only emergency hospital admission rates can be used as a proxy for incidence. However, it is known that that using emergency hospital admission rate as an indicator for incidence of unintentional injury is at best inadequate, and may even be misleading since admission practices will vary from area to area.

Table 1a: Accidents in children under 15; emergency hospital admissions by local council area and type of accident: years ending 31 March 2001 to 31 March 2005: Numbers

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Table 1b: Accidents in children under 15; emergency hospital admissions by local council area and type of accident: years ending 31 March 2001 to 31 March 2005: rates per 1,000 population.

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Further information on childhood accidents may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Unintentional Injuries  topic area.

2. Acute hospital care

Table 2.1: Hospital inpatient episodes with rates per 1,000 population and average length of stay, for specific acute specialities; by local council area and specialty: years ending 31 March 2001 to 31 March 2005

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2.1a  General Surgery
2.1b Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery (previously Orthopaedic surgery)
2.1c  Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgery
2.1d  Ophthalmology
2.1e  General Medicine
2.1f  Urology
2.1g Gynaecology
2.1h  Geriatric Medicine (excluding long stay facilities)

Further data for years 1998-2005 can be found in pivot table  [320 KB] format.

Table 2.2: Hospital inpatient and day case episodes for all acute specialties; by type of discharge and local council area: year ending 31 March: 2005.

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Further corresponding data for years 1998-2005 can be found in pivot table [320 KB] format.

Further information on acute hospital activity may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Acute Hospital Care topic area.

3. Cancer registrations

This shows the ten most common cancers in the most recent year available (2002).  However, because the numbers of cases are comparatively small, there is likely to be some random variation from year to year. For this reason the average number of registrations over the most recent 5-year period available, are shown.

Table 3a: Annual average cancer registrations by site of cancer and local council area: period 1998-2002
(ten most common cancers).

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Table 3b: Annual average cancer registrations rates (per 100,000 standardised to European standard population) by site of cancer and local council area: period 1998-2002 (ten most common cancers).

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Further information may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Cancer topic area.

4. General practitioners

Table 4a: Whole time equivalent general practitioners; by local council area: period 1 October 1995 to 1 October 2004.

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Table 4b: Whole time equivalent general practitioners, expressed as rates per 100,000 population; by local council area: period 1 October 1995 to 1 October 2004.

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Further information may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics General Practice and Workforce topic areas.

5. Fertility

Table 5: Births by local authority and outcome: year ending 31 March 2004.

Further information on live births, stillbirths and birth rates may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Births and Babies topic area and in the Statistics Library: Vital Events Reference Tables 2004, section 3 Births: Table 3.8  and Table 3.9  published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S)).

6. Mortality

Table 6: Deaths by sex, age and administrative area, Scotland 2004

Further information on cause of death and mortality rates may be obtained from the Statistics Library: Vital Events Reference Tables 2004, section 5: Deaths  published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S)).

7. Patients ready for discharge

Table 7: Number of delayed discharges outside of 6 week planning period by local authority and principal reason as at October 2005 census.

Further information may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Delayed Discharges topic area.

8. Population

Table 8: Estimated population by sex, quinary age group and administrative area 30 June 2004

Further information may be obtained from the Statistics Library: Previously published Population Estimates published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S)).
2003, 2002, 2001 and 1991-2000

9. Care homes

A bi-annual census of care homes has been taking place since 2002. Results of the March 2005 census may be found in the Scottish Executive publication Care Homes Scotland 2005 and will include the following tables.

Tables 9 (A-F Care Homes for Older People)

Annex A - Care Homes and Registered Places by Local Authority
Annex B - Registered Places and Percentage Change by Local Authority
Annex C - Care Home Places in Single Rooms
Annex D - Care Home Places with with Ensuite Facilities
Annex E - Care Home Closures and New Care Homes by Local Authority
Annex F - Care Homes that have Opened, Closed or Deregistered March 2000 - 05
Annex G - Care Homes by Client Group: March 2000 - 05

For more information, including information collected prior to 2002, see Scottish Health Statistics Care Homes topic area.

10. Teenage pregnancies

Table 10: Teenage pregnancies (age 13-15 & 16-19) by local council area of residence: 1991/92-2003/04

Further information may be obtained from the Scottish Health Statistics Teenage Pregnancy  topic area.

Not included in the latest edition

Tables on hospital admissions/discharges previously included for care of the elderly, learning disability and mental illness specialties have been omitted because of delays in receiving the data.  However further information on care provision for the above client groups may be obtained from the Scottish Executive publications:

Care Homes Scotland 2005
Adults with Learning Disabilities Implementation of "The Same as You?" Scotland 2004

as well as in the Scottish Health Statistics Mental Health and  Joint Future topic areas.

We welcome feedback on both the content and format of the existing data.

Since 1999, ISD Scotland has published the Scottish Local Authorities Compendium of Health Statistics, which includes trend and comparative information by local authority on a variety of health topics.
   
    2002/03      [0.6 MB]   pdf with web links

    2002/03      [0.5 MB]   pdf for printing

    2002/03      [0.75 MB]  data as Excel tables

    2001/02      [365 KB]   pdf for printing

We hope in the future to add new data which may include the following topic areas

Coronary heart disease/ Stroke
Practice team Information
Asthma/ diabetes
Drug and alcohol misuse
Residential, day and home care for older people, adults with learning disabilities, adults with mental health problems
Deprivation measures
Population projections

In addition we are planning to focus on several key topics and include graphs and commentary.

Any comments or suggestions would be welcomed. Please send your comments to Charles Guthrie or telephone 0131 275 6340

Main contact: Charles Guthrie

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