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) |
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| 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
[1.4Mb]
Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net
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
3 December 2019 [619 Kb]
Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net
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
22 October 2019 [1.4 Mb]
Contact details: nss.isdprescribing@nhs.net
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
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
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
February 2020 [1Mb]
Advice on how to access ScotSID data
[109kb]
Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net
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
27 June 2018 [193 Kb]
Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net
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
3 December 2019 [707 Kb]
Contact details: NSS.camh@nhs.net
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
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
3 December 2019 [1011 Kb]
Contact details: nss.isdPsychTherapies@nhs.net
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
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:
Dementia Benchmarking Toolkit 2017/18
26 March 2019 [1.3 Mb]
Contact details: nss.isdmentalhealth@nhs.net
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
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
19 November 2019 [150 kb]
Contact details: nss.isdsubstancemisuse@nhs.net.

