Outpatient Activity
Data and Resources
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Activity by Board of ResidenceCSV
New outpatient appointments and 'Did Not Attends' by health board of...
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Activity by Board of Residence, Age and SexCSV
Age and sex breakdown for new outpatient appointments and 'Did Not Attends'...
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Activity by Board of Residence and DeprivationCSV
Deprivation breakdown for new outpatient appointments and 'Did Not Attends'...
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Activity by Board of Residence and SpecialtyCSV
Specialty breakdown for new outpatient appointments and 'Did Not Attends' by...
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Activity by Board of TreatmentCSV
New outpatient appointments, return appointments and 'Did Not Attends' by...
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Activity by Board of Treatment, Age and SexCSV
Age and sex breakdown for new outpatient appointments, and 'Did Not Attends'...
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Activity by Board of Treatment and DeprivationCSV
Deprivation breakdown for new outpatient appointments and 'Did Not Attends'...
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Activity by Board of Treatment and SpecialtyCSV
Specialty breakdown for new outpatient appointments, return appointments and...
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Cross Boundary FlowCSV
The cross-boundary flow refers to the relationship between the health board...
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Publication NotesCSV
Publication notes in relation to data accuracy and general observations...
Additional Info
Field | Value |
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Source | New outpatient data are sourced from SMR00. Return outpatients are sourced from ISD(S)1. |
Author | Secondary Care Team |
Last Updated | November 26, 2024, 14:00 (GMT) |
Created | November 7, 2019, 10:41 (GMT) |
Contact Address | Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB |
Subject | Hospital Care |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Time frame of data and timeliness | Data from the quarter ending 30 June 2019 to the quarter ending 30 June 2024 |
Coverage | Covers all NHS boards in Scotland. |
Completeness | For the completeness of SMR00, see https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/scottish-morbidity-record-completeness |
Accuracy | https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/outpatient-activity/resource/84fae0e8-f9f0-4fee-8438-e89ed828dc4b |
Continuity of data | There are known issues with the quality of data presented. For more information, please see the ‘Continuity and accuracy of data’ section of the official data release information. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly-quarter-ending-30-june-2024/official-data-release-information/ The quarterly publication should not be used to approximate yearly figures as NHS Boards can update and submit their data monthly, which may result in changes in the recent data shown from one publication to another. This means that there will likely be more variation in the quarterly data which would level off over the year when presenting annual data within the annual publication. Also, it should be noted that the quarterly publication includes acute hospitals only. In addition, only acute specialties are included in the inpatient and day case figures. |
Concepts and definitions | https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly-quarter-ending-30-june-2024/methods-used-to-produce-this-data-release/ https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly-quarter-ending-30-june-2024/glossary/ Further details are also available in the PHS Data Dictionary: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/resources-and-tools/health-intelligence-and-data-management/national-data-catalogue/data-dictionary/search-the-data-dictionary/. For detailed information on the data sources and clinical coding used within Hospital Care analysis, please refer to the SMR Datasets, ISD(S)1 data collection and Terminology Services web pages: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/resources-and-tools/health-intelligence-and-data-management/data-management-in-secondary-care-hospital-activity/scottish-morbidity-records-smr/what-are-the-smr-datasets/ https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/resources-and-tools/health-intelligence-and-data-management/data-management-in-secondary-care-hospital-activity/isd-s-1-hospital-activity/what-is-isd-s-1/ https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/resources-and-tools/health-intelligence-and-data-management/terminology-services-and-clinical-coding/ |
Disclosure | Disclosure control methods have been applied to the data in order to protect patient confidentiality. Therefore, some figures may not be additive. The PHS Statistical Disclosure Protocol is followed. https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/public-health-scotland-statistical-disclosure-protocol/public-health-scotland-statistical-disclosure-protocol-version-22/ |
Revision statement | All revisions to data within this release are planned and are due to incomplete data returns at the time of publication. In general, these revisions have minimal effect on the statistics. If data providers discover that data submitted for publication are incorrect and/or missing or incomplete and is significant, this can be re-submitted and published in subsequent releases. Any changes will be highlighted within the publication release. Please see the PHS revisions policy for further details. https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/public-health-scotland-statistical-revisions-guidance/public-health-scotland-statistical-revisions-guidance-version-3/ |
Official statistics designation | Accredited official statistics. These accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation in November 2012. They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics and should be labelled ‘Accredited official statistics'. For more information, please see: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-quarterly-quarter-ending-30-june-2024/official-data-release-information/ |
Relevance and key uses of the statistics | To compare areas and activity across Scotland and view trends over time. To allow NHS Board employees to compare activity levels nationally: for example, NHS clinical consultants interested in their specialty figures by NHS Board, NHS information managers planning capacity to assist in the development of service agreements between NHS Boards. To investigate the implications of common systemic diseases in Scotland as a basis for assessing health demands in the future. To assess whether patients were treated within or outside their own NHS Board. To allow members of the public to readily access information on the number of hospital admissions for specific diagnoses or procedures that may be of personal interest to them. To assist students and universities conducting medical studies for research purposes. To inform private companies interested in hospital activity levels in Scotland, such as pharmaceutical companies, consultancy companies employed by NHS Trusts in England, advertising/media companies on behalf of clients. |
Format | CSV |
Language | English |
Links |
NHS England Outcomes and Performance, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) |