Unintentional Injuries

Summary of admissions to hospital and deaths in Scotland from unintentional injuries and assaults.

All publications and supporting material to this topic area can be found on the Public Health Scotland Emergency Care Website. Further information on unintentional injuries can be found in the recent annual publication. The date of the next release can be found on our list of forthcoming publications.

Data and Resources

AdmissionsCSV
Information on emergency hospital admissions as a result of unintentional...
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	SMR01, NRS Deaths registrations
Author	PHS Benchmarking Team
Version	1.0
Last Updated	October 10, 2023, 09:38 (BST)
Created	February 27, 2020, 15:07 (GMT)
Contact Address	Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB
Subject	Emergency Care
Frequency	Annual
Time frame of data and timeliness	Data ranges from 2013-2022 (deaths) and 2013/14-2022/23 (admissions).
Coverage	Covers all NHS Boards in Scotland.
Completeness	For completeness of SMR01 see https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/scottish-morbidity-record-completeness
Accuracy	SMR01 data are subjected to validation on submission. The figures are compared to previous years' figures and to expected trends. The SMR01 data are also occasionally assessed for accuracy by PHS's Data Quality Assurance.
Continuity of data	Data are reported from 2013 for deaths and from 2013/14 for emergency admissions.
Concepts and definitions	Unintentional Injuries Publication: Appendix A1 - Background Information
Disclosure	The PHS protocol on Statistical Disclosure Protocol (https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/statistical-disclosure-control-protocol/) is followed.
Revision statement	Any incomplete data due to shortfalls in submissions from NHS Boards are revised at the next publication.
Official statistics designation	National Statistics
Relevance and key uses of the statistics	This data has been used for looking at the performance of these services, to plan for future needs, to look at quality improvement, to see how services are changing over time and many other uses.
Format	csv
Language	English
Links	Unintentional Injuries - Public Health Scotland Unintentional Injuries - Public Health England