Dear Scott and Roger The use of unpublished statistics in Scottish Government news release On 23 June, a news release ‘COVID-19 antibody testing’ was published on the Scottish Government website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. […]
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 […]
Dear Scott, Thank you for your letter today. I am happy to confirm the exemption from the Code of Practice for Statistics’ standard publication time of 9.30am, to permit a later release time of 2.00pm each Wednesday for the PHS’s weekly COVID-19 report, starting on Wednesday 29 April. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic I welcome […]
Dear Ed Publication of COVID-19 related statistics by Public Health Scotland Thank you for your letter of 1st April 2020 welcoming the launch of Public Health Scotland. As you indicated, we have launched in unprecedented times and Public Health Scotland is continuing the work being led by Health Protection Scotland, ISD Scotland and NHS Health […]
Dear Scott LAUNCH OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCOTLAND, APRIL 2020 I am writing to mark and welcome the official launch of Public Health Scotland today. As the largest producer of official statistics about health services and population health in Scotland, you have been faced with preparing for this day under the most challenging set of circumstances […]