Dear Scott, Planned changes to adult social care data Thank you for your letter setting out the forthcoming work that you are planning on undertaking to adult social care data in Public Health Scotland (PHS). We welcome your plans to define a care home minimum dataset and to progress broader data transformation efforts. It is […]
Dear Ed, Planned changes to the Care Home Census statistics and Social Care Assessment and Care At Home Services management information. To support the modernisation of Scotland’s social care data landscape, we are making two changes to existing publications to release capacity for this work: Pausing the 2025/26 Care Home Census The 2024/25 Care Home […]
Dear Ed, NHS stage of treatment waiting times statistics – New developments Following my letter in August, I am pleased to share that PHS has today launched new monthly statistics on NHS Waiting Times – Stage of Treatment. These statistics provide timely and relevant insights into how long patients wait to be seen as new […]
Dear Scott, Assessment of NHS Education Scotland’s workforce statistics We have completed our assessment of statistics about the NHS workforce in Scotland produced by NHS Education Scotland (NES): Workforce statistics, CAMHS Workforce statistics and Psychology Workforce statistics. I am grateful for the positive contribution and engagement from the team at NES throughout the assessment process. […]
Dear Ed, NHS diagnostics activity and stage of treatment waiting times statistics – New developments I am writing to update you about the new diagnostic activity statistics that PHS has been developing and to advise you of two important upcoming changes to the accredited official statistics publication NHS Waiting Times – Stage of Treatment. As […]
Dear Scott, NHS diagnostic activity and stage of treatment waiting times statistics Thank you for your letter outlining the development of statistics on diagnostic activity which have been published by Public Health Scotland for the first time today. These new statistics will support users to monitor commitments relating to eight key diagnostics tests which are […]
Dear Scott Thank you for your letter setting out the errors uncovered whilst you were working on the development of new statistics to measure the changing cervical cancer screening programme in Scotland. Based on the findings of your investigations, I agree to your request to temporarily suspend the accreditation of the Scottish Cervical Cancer […]
Dear Ed, My team contacted the Office for Statistics Regulation in March this year when we became aware of an error affecting the data used in the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme statistics for the years 2016/17 to 2021/22i. These statistics report on the number of eligible women (and anyone with a cervix) who have a […]
Dear Ed, 18 Weeks Referral to Treatment Publication Pause I have taken the decision to pause data collection and production of the PHS quarterly statistics publication on adherence to the NHS Scotland 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) standard. This will enable us to divert resource to developing statistics about NHS performance around activity for eight […]
Dear Scott Thank you for your letter formally outlining the intention to pause the data collection and production of the Public Health Scotland’s quarterly official statistics publication on adherence to the NHS Scotland 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) standard after the next scheduled publication on 18th March 2025. I understand that this decision has been […]