Release Calendar

Summary: Information on trends in available beds, occupancy, mean stay and throughput by NHS Board and specialty. This publication will be part of a new quarterly publication 'Acute Hospital Activity and NHS Beds information' as from 29 March 2011.

Summary: Cancer waiting time statistics for urgently referred patients by tumour site and NHS board. To remain relevant to the changing set of targets the Cancer Waiting Times Statistics published previously by ISD have been replaced by the New Cancer Waiting Times Statistics, which show a new series of figures. New Cancer Waiting Times for the period October - December 2010 will be released in March 2011.

Summary: Information on the number of clients seen and the length of time they waited to be seen for various interventions, quarter ending December 2010. Data presented by Health Board and Alcohol and Drug Action Team area. This quarter also includes an extra table showing progress towards the HEAT target for December. From September 2011 this publication will be renamed 'National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times'. Please refer to this new publication for information.

Summary: Nurse led clinic data in the acute hospital sector of NHSScotland. Contains information on new and total attendances by NHS Board for acute and non-acute specialties. From September 2011 this publication will be part of an annual publication - the "Annual Acute Hospital Activity and NHS Beds information". The latest quarterly update of the 2010 annual data was released in December 2010.

Summary: Part of Therapeutic Areas and includes number of items, GIC and Defined Daily Doses, for drugs listed in BNF section 4.5, by NHS Board. Prior to March 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Prescribing Statistics" publication.

Summary: Part of Therapeutic Areas and includes number of items, GIC and Defined Daily Doses, for drugs listed in BNF section 10.1, by NHS Board. Prior to March 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Prescribing Statistics" publication. Due to the lack of interest in the non-steroidal publication, the prescribing team have decided not to go ahead with future publications of this topic. The latest data available was released in March 2010.

Summary: The number of MAS registrations. Prior to March 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Prescribing Statistics" publication.

Summary: Part of Therapeutic Areas and includes number of items, GIC and Defined Daily Doses, for drugs listed in BNF section 4.10 for smoking cessation, by NHS Board. Prior to March 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Prescribing Statistics" publication.

Summary: Volume and gross ingredient cost (GIC) of prescriptions dispensed by patient charge exemption grouping. Quarterly update of volume of pre-payment certificates sold and total income is also shown. In September 2009 this was released as part of the "Prescribing Statistics - Dispenser Remuneration" publication. Prior to this date it was released as part of an overall "Prescribing Statistics" publication.

Summary: Annual updates to various sections of the ScotPHO website, including key points, policy context, key data sources, references and data summaries.