Dear Scott, Re: Waiting times statistics in Scotland – Issues relating to the NHS informs website and the number of people waiting for appointments Thank you for your letter setting out the forthcoming work that you are planning to undertake to address some of the recent issues regarding waiting times data interpretation in Scotland. I […]
Dear Ed, Waiting times statistics in Scotland – Issues relating to the NHS informs website and the number of people waiting for appointments My team in Public Health Scotland (PHS) have been liaising with your office on two separate issues relating to the presentation of waiting times statistics in Scotland. I am writing to give […]
Dear Catherine Request to re-start assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics Thank you for your letter of 6 March requesting the assessment resumption of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) during 2024/2025. We welcome the positive progress made by NES since the assessment was paused in 2022 and its […]
Dear Ed, Request to re-start assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics We have asked your team in the Office for Statistics Regulation to consider including the assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in your 2024/2025 work programme. The assessment was previously paused in 2022 as NES were […]
Dear Ed, Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland: Confirmation of Accredited Official Statistics status Thank you to you and your team for conducting an assessment of Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) weekly A&E activity statistics. We are delighted that OSR’s independent review has concluded that they should have the status of accredited official statistics. […]
Dear Scott Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland: Confirmation of accredited official statistics status Following our assessment of the weekly A&E activity statistics produced by Public Health Scotland (PHS), we set out three requirements that we judged that you needed to meet in order for these statistics to become accredited official statistics. Accredited […]
Dear Scott Inpatients, day cases and new outpatients statistics in Scotland We recently completed our compliance check of Public Health Scotland (PHS) Inpatients, day cases and new outpatients statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The statistics are published quarterly and were designated as National Statistics in 2017. They provide important data showing waiting […]
Dear Ed Assessment of Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland Thank you for your letter dated 27 July 2023 relating to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)’s assessment of the A&E statistics published by Public Health Scotland. I am pleased that your team have assessed that our monthly publication can continue as “National […]
Dear Scott Assessment of Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland We have completed our assessment of the weekly A&E activity statistics produced by Public Health Scotland (PHS). We judge that these statistics can be designated as National Statistics once we have confirmed that the requirements set out in our report have been met. […]
Ed Humpherson writes to Scott Heald, Director of Data and Digital Innovation at Public Health Scotland to confirm an assessment of Waiting Times Statistics in Scotland will begin shortly.