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Public Health Scotland’s ‘Alcohol related hospital statistics’ report includes specific figures on alcohol related liver disease, however the exact age of each patient admitted is not included. This means it is not possible to report on the mean age per annum of patients admitted to hospital with alcohol-related liver damage.

The full dataset supporting the alcohol related hospital statistics covering financial years 1997-98 to 2020-21 can be found via the following link:

Alcohol related hospital statistics - Scotland financial year 2020 to 2021 - Alcohol related hospital statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland.

Spending data on additional support for learning (ASL) is provided below. This data is collected from local authorities via the Local Financial Returns (LFR). In addition to 2020-21 expenditure data, figures for 2019-20 have also been provided due to revisions in LFR statistics since the response to S6W-00064 on 1 June 2021. These revisions reflect an upward revision in ASL spending reported by Aberdeen City, and a downwards revision in ASL spending reported by Renfrewshire local authority.

Local authorities are asked to provide this data in line with guidance to ensure returns are completed on a consistent basis to allow for a reasonable degree of comparability. However, these figures may be affected by variations in local accounting practices and education strategies. It is important to bear this in mind when making comparisons between local authorities and years.

Local authorities are asked to record all centrally funded ASL expenditure under Special Education, irrespective of where it is delivered. Decisions about prioritisation and budgets, including those for the provision of services for pupils with additional support needs, are a matter for individual councils. We recognise the challenges facing authorities in balancing their need to meet a wide range of statutory duties, local priorities and local circumstances.

Tables 1 and 2 show gross revenue expenditure on additional support for learning (ASL) education from 2020-21 and 2019-20 respectively, split by Pre-Primary, Primary, Secondary and Special Education.

Table 1 – 2020-21 ASL expenditure by Local Authority (£000)

NHS 24 has recently completed an initial review of the cancer specific information on NHS Inform, to ensure it is clinically safe and any out of date information has been removed. Meanwhile NHS 24 is in discussions with a third sector organisation on the potential for an API (Application Programming Interface) to facilitate the sharing of information through enabling information to be systematically gathered and displayed on NHS Inform.

The Scottish Government only holds this information from 2019/20 onwards.

In November 2021, we published a report which presented the findings of a survey of the 20 residential rehabilitation providers across Scotland which were identified in a previous mapping exercise. This report contained data on the numbers of people accessing residential rehabilitation for problem alcohol use in 2019/20 and 2020/21. For 2019/20, providers reported a total of 1,601 placements in residential rehabilitation across Scotland, of which 51% were primarily for alcohol. For 2020/21, providers reported a total of 1,164 placements, of which 52% were primarily for alcohol. This data refers to all placements from all funding sources.

We have tasked Public Health Scotland with producing a quarterly report on statutory funded placements. The first of these reports published in November 2021 found that between 1st April 2021 and 30th September 2021 there were a total of 96 (45%) placements for problem alcohol use.

The next report will be published on 26 April 2022 and will cover the period of October to December 2021.

Information on NHS Scotland performance against the 62 and 31-day standards has been published by Public Health Scotland (PHS).

Information on NHS Scotland performance from 2012 to Q1 2020 is available on the Information Services Division site, which has since become part of PHS, located here: Latest Publications | ISD Scotland

Public Health Scotland has since June 2020 published quarterly breakdowns, located here: Publications - Public Health Scotland

The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested. The data we receive from Police Scotland for production of the Recorded Crime in Scotland National Statistics is a simple count of the numbers of crimes and offences, for each local authority, which the police have recorded and cleared up in each financial year. We do not receive further details on the characteristics and circumstances of individual crimes, including the age of any victim(s).

The number of CT scans split by NHS board for financial years 1999-00 to 2019-20 is available in SPICe – Bib number 63296. Data for financial year 2020-21 is unavailable due to a limited data collection for the Cost Book publication for 2020-21. For CT scan figures for 2020-21 please contact the individual NHS boards directly.

Notes

1. The number of CT scans is only collected by Public Health Scotland for the 'Costs Book' publication as part of the SFR 5.11 Radiology Services data collection process. This data is submitted to PHS by NHS boards from their local systems for radiology. This information is not quality assured by PHS data management teams and there is no other national collection of CT scan examinations by PHS.

2. The data collection for radiology services changed in financial year 2008-09 from collecting attendances to examinations. This may have a small impact on comparing activity up to 2007-08 with activity from 2008-09 onwards. This should be considered when making year on year comparisons.

3. CT scan examinations for NHS Western Isles for the years 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2019-20 have been provided directly by NHS Western Isles due to an issue with the cost book SFR 5.11 submission for NHS Western Isles in those years. The figures for the NHS board and NHSScotland for those years will differ to the published information where all radiology service examinations in NHS Western Isles were submitted under 'other'.

4. For more information on the Costs Book publication please see the following web pages:

? 2019/20 Costs Book page

? 2009/10 to 2018/19 Costs Book archive

? 1999/00 to 2008/09 Costs Book archive

The Scottish Government is committed to the establishment of a National Care Service (NCS), and that work is continuing on schedule. We have pledged to bring forward legislation to enable the creation of the NCS by the end of June 2022.

Scottish Ministers are still considering the wealth of information provided through the recent National Care Service consultation. We are committed to ensuring that the design and delivery of the NCS has human rights embedded throughout. We are continuing to engage with the real experts – people with lived experience of the service whether they are people accessing care and support, their families, care workers or providers – and will continue to do so in order to improve future services and make things better for everyone.

We will then be in a position to bring forward the detailed plans for improvement to be undertaken over the course of this Parliament, to end the postcode lottery of care provision ensuring quality, fairness and consistency of provision that meets individuals’ needs, regardless of where they live in Scotland.

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The information requested is not held centrally.