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Summary: Describes the place of death from cancer in Scotland, by demographic characteristics including deprivation. Locations of death are home, hospice, NHS Acute hospital, other institution; covers the four major cancers of lung, breast, colorectal and prostate. Ten year trends are also presented. As from May 2010 these statistics can be designated as National Statistics products.

Summary: Gross expenditure on Research and Development in Scotland broken down by expenditure type (by Business, Government and/or Higher Education) - with UK and International comparisons.

Summary: This bulletin will no longer be published in its current form. The content from this will now form part of a new collection of outputs to be published on the ScotPHO website.

Summary: Quarterly Statistics on care homes, home care, rapid response, direct payments and free personal and nursing care.

Summary: Applications, numbers in temporary accommodation, and snapshot of characteristics of applicants and local authority responses.

Summary: Information on new individuals that are presenting for specialist assessment from the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. Specifically looking at the profile of new individuals with a specalist assessment ranging from their drug taking habits, drug taking history, how their drug taking is being funded and a range of social demographics.

Summary: This report reviews perinatal mortality over a variety of time periods (from 33 years to 15 years), depending on the dataset and describes some of the changes since data collection started. The data is collected across Scotland and therefore represents changes in the whole population.

Summary: A range of statistics that will vary each quarter, also includes data updated annually. Until December 2011 this publication was split as individual titles -Dispenser renumeration -Drugs indicated in the treatment of obesity -Drugs used rheumatic diseases and gout -Medicines used in mental health -Minor ailments service -Prescribing of smoking cessation interventions -Prescription charge analysis (abolished on the 1st April 2011) -Prescription cost analysis

Summary: Quarterly New Cancer Waiting Times statistics for the 62-day target: patients urgently referred with a suspicion of cancer to first cancer treatment; and for the 31-day target: all patients regardless of the route of referral from date decision to treat to first cancer treatment by NHS Board, Cancer Network and Cancer Type.

Summary: Estimates on the impact on GP consultations reates of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, launched in September 2012 as part of the Detect Cancer Early Programme