Scott Heald, Director of Data and Digital Innovation at Public Health Scotland writes to Ed Humpherson, to request an assessment of Waiting Times Statistics in Scotland.
Scott Heald responds to Ed Humpherson following concerns being raised about the NHS Inform waiting times dashboard.
Ed Humpherson writes to Scott Heald and Alastair McAlpine following concerns being raised about the NHS Inform waiting times dashboard.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Ed, The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government press release Thank you for your letter of 8 July relating to the use of an unpublished statistics on routine serology (antibody) testing in a Scottish Government news release on 23rd June.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 […]