Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald and Alastair McAlpine: NHS Inform waiting times
Ed Humpherson writes to Scott Heald and Alastair McAlpine following concerns being raised about the NHS Inform waiting times dashboard.
Public Health Scotland
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Mark Pont to Scott Heald: Assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics
Mark Pont writes to Scott Heald of Public Health Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland to update on the OSR assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics.
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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Rapid Review of weekly COVID-19 and Winter Statistical Report
Ed Humpherson writes to Scott Heald of Public Health Scotland regarding the OSR rapid review of the weekly Public Health Scotland COVID-19 and Winter Statistical Report.
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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland: Chronic pain waiting time statistics in Scotland
Dear Scott, Chronic pain waiting time statistics in Scotland As you are aware, we have been looking into concerns raised with us about chronic pain waiting time statistics in Scotland. The current statistics are for first appointments, there are no data on patients returning for treatment. Thank you for your ongoing engagement with us on this topic. In September […]
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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Test and Protect statistics
Dear Scott, Test and Protect statistics As you are aware, my team has been looking into concerns about the treatment of “failed” (or “incomplete”) cases in the Test and Protect statistics set out in the weekly COVID-19 Statistical Report, published by Public Health Scotland (PHS). Scottish ministers use the statistics from the COVID-19 report to […]
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Scott Heald response to Ed Humpherson: Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report
Dear Ed Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report Thank you for your letter of 14 January 2021 relating to the above report. As you know, Public Health Scotland is building on the good practice in the publication of statistics from ISD Scotland, one of its constituent parts, and […]
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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report
Dear Scott Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report On 28 October, Public Health Scotland (PHS) published the report ‘Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes between 1 March and 31 May 2020’. This was commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on 18 August and you […]
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Scott Heald and Roger Halliday response to Ed Humpherson: The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government news release
Dear Ed, The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government press release Thank you for your letter of 8 July relating to the use of an unpublished statistics on routine serology (antibody) testing in a Scottish Government news release on 23rd June. This was an oversight, for which we apologise. As you are aware, there […]
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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald and Roger Halliday: The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government news release
Dear Scott and Roger The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government news release On 23 June, a news release ‘COVID-19 antibody testing’ was published on the Scottish Government website detailing a letter written to NHS boards from the Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith about the use of serology testing for COVID-19 in Scotland. […]
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Scott Heald to Ed Humpherson: Publication of the first COVID-19 statistics weekly report by Public Health Scotland
Dear Ed Publication of the first COVID-19 statistics weekly report by Public Health Scotland Further to my letter of 23 April 2020, I wanted to update you on progress with our new weekly report on COVID-19 statistics in Scotland. The first report was released on 6 May 2020. This is a week later than originally […]