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COVID-19 Wider Impacts - Hospital Admissions

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. Clinical presentation may range from mild-to-moderate illness to pneumonia or severe acute respiratory infection.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wider impacts on individuals’ health, and their use of healthcare services, than those that occur as the direct result of infection. Reasons for this may include:

• Individuals being reluctant to use health services because they do not want to burden the NHS or are anxious about the risk of infection.

• The health service delaying preventative and non-urgent care such as some screening services and planned surgery.

• Other indirect effects of interventions to control COVID-19, such as mental or physical consequences of distancing measures.

This dataset provides information on trend data regarding the wider impact of the pandemic on hospital admissions. Data are shown by age group, sex, broad deprivation category and specialty groups. Information is also available at different levels of geographical breakdown such as Health Boards, Health and Social Care partnerships, and Scotland totals.

This data is also available on the COVID-19 Wider Impact Dashboard. Additional data sources relating to this topic area are provided in the Links section of the Metadata below. Information on COVID-19, including stay at home advice for people who are self-isolating and their households, can be found on NHS Inform.

All publications and supporting material to this topic area can be found in the weekly COVID-19 Statistical Report. The date of the next release can be found on our list of forthcoming publications.

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Felt Værdi
Kilde RAPID
Forfatter Public Health Scotland
Last Updated Oktober 5, 2023, 09:50 (BST)
Oprettet Maj 21, 2020, 14:47 (BST)
Contact Address Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB
Subject COVID-19 Impact, Hospital Care
Frequency Monthly
Time frame of data and timeliness Information is provided on different topics as quickly as possible, given the different time lags that apply to different national data sources. For example, Public Health Scotland receives information on patients attending Accident & Emergency within days; but there can be a delay of at least six weeks before we receive detailed information on patients discharged from hospital after having a baby.
Coverage Data covering all of Scotland.
Completeness RAPID data submissions are only required for large acute hospitals which accept emergency admissions, however, some NHS health boards submit more complete data. Exclusions from the RAPID dataset are day cases, neonatal, maternity and psychiatric care admissions. Admissions to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital are also not included. Admissions related to COVID-19 will be included in totals. Please, note that for NHS Forth Valley data is largely incomplete for the period presented and therefore the trends for this board need to be interpreted carefully.
Accuracy PHS receives data from each NHS health board of treatment and conducts quality checks. Figures are compared to previously published data and expected trends.
Continuity of data Data are comparable for the whole period included.
Concepts and definitions Please see the Weekly COVID-19 Report (Link 1)
Disclosure Disclosure control methods have been applied to the data in order to protect patient confidentiality.
Revision statement Figures contained within each publication may be subject to change in future releases as submissions may be updated to reflect a more accurate and complete set of data.
Official statistics designation Management Information Statistics
Relevance and key uses of the statistics The data are used to describe the current impact and the severity of COVID-19 in Scotland. Such information allows comparison with prior influenza seasons and with current activity across the UK, Europe and globally.
Format csv
Sprog English
Links

PHS Weekly COVID-19 Report

COVID-19 Wider Impact Dashboard

Public Health England COVID-19 surveillance report

Scottish Government – Coronavirus: daily data for Scotland

Scottish Government – COVID-19 5* Open Data

Scottish Government – COVID-19 3* Open Data

COVID-19 Deaths - NRS