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Mental Health

This website is now part of Public Health Scotland. Publications released after 16 March 2020 are now published on the Public Health Scotland website.

Related Publications up to December 2020

All mental health related publications for November 2019 to December 2020

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Mental Health Inpatient Activity A
Scottish Suicide Information
Database (ScotSID)
Q Q
Suicide - ScotPHO A
Dementia (Dates To be confirmed)
Mental Health Quality Indicators Profile Q Q
Medicines for Mental Health A
Outpatient Activity (Psychiatrist) Q Q Q Q
Child and Adolescent (CAMHS)
Waiting Times
Q Q Q Q Q
Psychological Therapies Waiting Times Q Q Q Q Q
Electroconvulsive Therapy(To be confirmed)
Learning Disability Inpatient Activity A
Alcohol related discharges from Psychiatric Hospitals A A

Key: A  : Annual Publication  Q  : Quarterly publication

Mental Health Quality Indicators Profile

The Mental Health Quality Indicators profile provides information about quality outcomes for services for people with mental health problems located within the context of Integrated Authority provision.

Website: Mental Health Quality Indicator Profile

Most recent publication: Adult Mental Health Benchmarking Toolkit Download PDF file[1.4Mb]

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Learning Disability Inpatient Activity

Presents information on patients who have been cared for as inpatients or day cases in learning disability specialty beds in Scottish hospitals. It also includes records from certain care homes contracted by NHS boards to provide this care.

Website: Mental Health

Most recent publication: Learning Disability Inpatient Activity Download PDF file 3 December 2019 [619 Kb]

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Medicines for Mental Health

ISD maintains a detailed database of details of NHS prescriptions dispensed in the community in NHS Scotland that is augmented by information on prescriptions that originate in NHS Scotland but dispensed elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The publication shows medicines and prescriptions used in mental health, specifically Insomnia & Anxiety, Psychoses & related disorders, Depression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Dementia.

Annually published in October.

Website: Prescribing and Medicines

Most recent publication: Medicines using in Mental Health Download PDF file22 October 2019 [1.4 Mb]

Contact details: nss.isdprescribing@nhs.net

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Mental Health Inpatient Activity

Mental health inpatient activity trend data until March 2019 has now been published.

Website: Mental Health

Most recent publication: Mental Health Inpatient Activity, 2019 release 10 September 2019

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Outpatient Activity (Psychiatrist)

An outpatient is a patient who attends (outpatient attendance) a consultant or other medical clinic or has an arranged meeting with a consultant or a senior member of their team out with a clinic session. Outpatients are not admitted to a hospital and do not use a hospital bed. The tables on the link below include information on outpatient attendances with consultant psychiatrists.

Quarterly published in November 2019, February 2020, May 2020 and November 2020.

Website: Outpatient Activity

Most recent publication: the Outpatient Activity section provides some data on psychiatic outpatient activity in its annual figures.

Contact details: nss.isdQualityIndicators@nhs.net

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Scottish Suicide Information Database (ScotSID)

The overall aim of the ScotSID is to provide a central repository for information on all probable suicide deaths in Scotland, in order to support epidemiology, preventive activity, and policy making. The database covers demographic information, contact with health services and related health data, and will eventually provide details relating to the suicide event and individuals' wider social circumstances.

The latest publication was published in February 2020.

Website: Mental Health

Most recent publication: ScotSID - Contact with Unscheduled Care Services Prior to Death Download PDF file February 2020 [1Mb]

Open Data

Advice on how to access ScotSID data Download PDF file [109kb]

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Suicide - Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO)

Annual update of suicide information in Scotland including numbers and rates of suicide at Scotland, NHS board and LA level and by deprivation decile at Scotland level.

Published annually.

Website: ScotPHO website, Suicide: key points

Most recent publication: Suicide Statistics for Scotland - Update of trends to 2017 Download PDF file 27 June 2018 [193 Kb]

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Waiting Times

Information Services Division (ISD) release publications on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times. The target is to deliver treatment within 18 weeks from referral, this has been the standard since December 2014.

Quarterly published in March, June, September and December.

Website: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Waiting Times

Most recent publication: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Waiting Times Download PDF file 3 December 2019 [707 Kb]

Contact details: NSS.camh@nhs.net

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Workforce

Published annually in December.

Website: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Workforce Project

For new publications visit: www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/NES-Publication/

Contact details: NSS.camh@nhs.net

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Psychological Therapies Waiting Times

The Scottish Government has set a target for NHS Boards to deliver a 18 week referral to treatment for Psychological Therapies by December 14.  This publication shows the Psychological Therapies Waiting Times in Scotland.

Quarterly published in March, June, September and December. First published in August 13.

Website: Psychological Therapies Waiting Times

Most recent publication: Psychological Therapies Waiting Times in NHSScotland Download PDF file 3 December 2019 [1011 Kb]

Contact details: nss.isdPsychTherapies@nhs.net

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Psychology Workforce

NHS Scotland Psychology workforce statistics.

Published annually in March.

Website: Psychology Workforce Planning Project

For new publications visit: www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/NES-Publication/

Contact details: lizjamieson@nhs.net

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Dementia

To support the commitments outlined in the Scottish Government's Dementia Strategy [463 Kb], the Dementia Benchmarking toolkit provides a mechanism for monitoring and tracking change and improvement over time in respect of dementia services in Scotland. It builds on the themes outlined in the first Dementia Strategy, providing information to support the five key challenges:

Published annually.

Website: Dementia Benchmarking

Most recent publication:Download PDF file Dementia Benchmarking Toolkit 2017/18 Download PDF file 26 March 2019 [1.3 Mb]

Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

ECT, a treatment reserved for people with serious mental illness, still attracts polarised views with respect to acceptability in contemporary practice. The formation of the Scottish ECT Accreditation Service (SEAN) with its focus on audit and adherence to nationally agreed standards and guidelines provides assurance about practice within Scotland. Publication is an annual report on the work of the SEAN.

Annually published in October.

Website: The Scottish Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Accreditation Network (SEAN)

Most recent publication: Scottish ECT Accreditation Network Annual Report 2016

Contact details: linda.cullen2@nhs.net

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Alcohol related discharges from Psychiatric Hospitals

Alcohol-related hospital discharge statistics are published annually by ISD in two different publications, which are released in alternate years. They are included in this Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics report, which is published every two years. They also form part of the Alcohol Statistics Scotland release, which is also published every two years (in alternate years to the Alcohol Hospital Statistics publication). This publication includes data on alcohol-related psychiatric discharges (from SMR04). These are presented by age, gender, deprivation and Health Board area.

Annually published in November.

Website: Drugs and Alcohol Misuse

Most recent publication: Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics Scotland 2018/19 Download PDF file 19 November 2019 [150 kb]

Contact details: nss.isdsubstancemisuse@nhs.net.

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