Publication: NHS in Scotland 2021

by Auditor General

Publication cover: NHS in Scotland 2021

The Scottish Government must focus on transforming health and social care services to address the growing cost of the NHS and its recovery from Covid-19.

Improving the NHS will be very difficult against the competing demands of the pandemic and an increasing number of other policy initiatives, including plans for a National Care Service.

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Videos

Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland, talks about the report

A transcript of this video is available to download with the other files on this page.

Images

  • Exhibit 1: Average daily bed days occupied by patients whose discharge from hospital was delayed
    Exhibit 1
  • Exhibit 2: The number of NHS staff absent because of Covid-19
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  • Exhibit 3: Covid-19 cases, deaths and hospital admissions
    Exhibit 3
  • Exhibit 4: National trends in demand for hospital services and activity
    Exhibit 4
  • Exhibit 5: Trend in referrals
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  • Exhibit 6: New and existing workforce commitments
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  • Exhibit 7: The NHS has introduced innovative new ways of working throughout the pandemic
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  • Exhibit 8: A breakdown of NHS funding in 2020/21 and key areas of spending
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  • Case study 1: Data linkage to identify the risk factors to homelessness
    Case study 1
  • Case study 2: NHS Tayside
    Case study 2