Weekly Number of Admissions
Weekly number of acute COVID-19 hospital admissions across Scotland by NHS Health Board of treatment.
COVID-19 hospital admissions are defined as: A patient’s first PCR or LFD confirmed test of the episode of infection (including reinfections at 90 days or more after their last positive test) for COVID-19 up to 14 days prior to admission to hospital or within two days of admission. COVID-19 hospital admissions only include emergency admissions to medical or paediatric specialties, excluding emergency admissions for injuries.
Inpatient counts are a snapshot of the number of COVID-19 inpatients in beds at 8am on a Sunday. Data extracts are taken by NHS Boards at 8am on a Monday to allow 24 hours for test results to become available. If Boards have not submitted by 8am on Monday, the most recent available data will be rolled over and used as a proxy for the missing dates. Where a patient has not yet received a positive test result they will not be included in this figure. Patients who have been in hospital for more than 10 days and still being treated for COVID-19 will stop being included in this figure after 10 days.
All inpatients in hospital, including in intensive care, and community, mental health and long stay hospitals are included in this figure.
Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| WeekEnding | numeric | This represents the week a patient was admitted, as the last day (Sunday) of that week. This is stored as a numeric in the format CCYYMMDD. |
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| HealthBoardOfTreatment | text | 9-digit code for Health Board of Treatment. Health Board code based on boundaries as at 1st April 2019. Health Board is assigned based on postcode of treatment. Health Board of treatment codes can be found in the following lookups: https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/geography-codes-and-labels |
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| HealthBoardOfTreatmentQF | text | Qualifier for Health Board of Treatment, indicating Scotland totals |
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| Admissions | numeric | Number of acute COVID-19 admissions to hospital each week |
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| AdmissionsQF | text | Qualifier for Admissions |
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| InpatientsAsAtLastSunday | numeric | Snapshot of the number of inpatients in hospital at week ending Sunday with recently confirmed COVID-19, identified by their first positive LFD test (from 5 January 2022) or PCR test. This measure (first available from 11 September 2020 and first published 15 September 2020) includes inpatients who first tested positive in hospital or in the 14 days before admission. Patients stop being included after 10 days in hospital (or 10 days after first testing positive if this is after admission). |
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| InpatientsAsAtLastSundayQF | text | Qualifier for InpatientsAsAtLastSunday |
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| InpatientsSevenDayAverage | numeric | Seven day average number of inpatients in hospital at week ending Sunday with recently confirmed COVID-19. |
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| InpatientsSevenDayAverageQF | text | Qualifier for InpatientsSevenDayAverage |
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | April 24, 2025 |
| Metadata last updated | November 23, 2023 |
| Created | November 23, 2023 |
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