NHS in Scotland 2019

About the data

Expenditure per head

• Expenditure data is the total core revenue spend as at 2018/19 financial year end and was taken from the NHS board 2018/19 accounts
• Percentage change calculated using total core revenue spend for the 2014/15 financial year taken from the NHS board 2014/15 accounts, adjusted to real terms using HM Treasury GDP deflators for June 2019
• Population data, used to calculate spend per 1,000 population from the National Records of Scotland Mid-2018 population estimates published April 2019.

Agency and prescribing

• Total agency spend taken from NHS board 2018/19 accounts.
• Agency spend for previous years from 2014/15 to 2017/18 adjusted to real terms using HM Treasury GDP deflators for June 2019
• Drug volume data taken from ISD as at July 2019, and only includes drugs prescribed in the community and not in hospitals.

Performance indicators

• Data from:
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: waiting times, workforce and service demand, ISD Scotland, June 2019;
  • National drug and alcohol treatment waiting times, ISD Scotland, June 2019; 18 weeks referral to treatment: ISD Scotland, May 2019;
  • New outpatient appointment: waiting times for patients waiting at month end, census date at 31 March 2019, ISD Scotland, May 2019;
  • Inpatient or day case admission: waiting times for patients seen, ISD Scotland, May 2019; Accident and emergency: attendances and time in department, ISD Scotland, June 2019;
  • Performance against the 62-day standard from receipt of an urgent referral with suspicion of cancer to first treatment by NHS board, ISD Scotland, June 2019;
  • Performance against the 31-day standard from date decision to treat to first cancer treatment by NHS board, ISD Scotland, June 2019
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) data is combined for the island boards

Workforce data

• NHS Scotland workforce, ISD Scotland, June 2019.

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