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The information requested is not held centrally. The number of places offered will be held by the University of Strathclyde and the University of Dundee who had intakes in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

This data is not collected centrally. Although audiology services are covered by the 18 weeks referral to treatment target the information ISD receive from health boards are aggregated returns and specialty information is not published. Audiology services are not covered by the stage of treatment standards asthis is not a consultant led service. However individual health boards will be able to provide the member with this information.

The numbers of babies reported in the Scottish Birth Record (SBR) as having a diagnosis of ‘foetus and newborn affected by maternal use of drugs of addiction’ or ‘neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drug addiction’ in Scotland during the period 2006-07 to 2016-17 are provided in the following table. The figures presented cover three year aggregates to avoid disclosing small numbers in each individual year. Further suppression of small numbers has been applied as per ISD’s Statistical Disclosure Control policy in order to protect patient confidentiality.

Care should be taken when comparing these data over time as there has been an improvement in drug misuse recording in recent years. It is also worth noting that recording practice of drug misuse diagnoses may vary between hospitals, which may explain some of the variation between NHS Boards.

Table of information has been lodged with SPICe under reference Bib number 60118.

The following tables show the number of people from Scotland who have received treatment in hospitals in other parts of the UK in each year since 1999. The data across the UK is not directly comparable due to differences in data definitions.

Information is provided in the following table on the number of finished admission episodes for patients resident in Scotland who have received healthcare from the NHS in England since 1999.

The following table shows the number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in Scotland in each year since 2007 when a person has been admitted to hospital. Due to changes in clinical practice, gastric lavage is not generally carried out within an A&E department but these figures will not include any that may have been. Due to the small number of cases, it is not possible to provide a breakdown by NHS Board.

Number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in inpatient/day case setting, Scotland, 2007 to 2017

A flag to indicate if alcohol was involved in an A&E admission was introduced into the A&E datamart in July 2010.

The ‘alcohol involved’ flag is optional and currently poorly recorded or not recorded at all by some NHS Boards. For this reason, the data requested cannot be reliably provided. ISD are working with NHS Boards to try and improve the quality and completeness of recording this data item.

Alcohol-related hospital discharge statistics are published annually by Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland. The latest report , Alcohol Related Hospital Statistics 2016/17 was published on the 21st November 2017.

The following table shows specialist provision of wheelchairs
per year for children under the age of 18 from 2014-15 onwards.

Data for earlier years is not held in any comparable format. Data
for 2018 only part year.

Sourced from ReTIS

• The table includes all provision by the Wheelchair Services to children under the age
  of 18 and not just “new wheelchairs” i.e. it will include referrals for provision of wheelchair
  seating.
• We only have records of performance against the 18 week target for provision requiring
  a specialist assessment. Other data is not collated.
• While there are 5 wheelchair services in Scotland, some NHS Boards have wheelchairs
  provided by more than one service. This cross border activity makes it more difficult to
  get a comprehensive picture of the activity within these Health Boards.

This information is not held centrally. Further information may be sought directly from individual health boards. NHS Scotland health boards have devolved responsibilities in relation to the recruitment, retention and deployment of staff.

This information is not held centrally. Further information may be sought directly from NHS Scotland Health Boards.

Youth employment returns issued to the Scottish Government indicate that NHS Scotland Boards employed 556 new modern apprentices in the period 1 August 2014 – 31st March 2018.

Furthermore, health boards across Scotland routinely meet and exceed annual requirement to provide 1 new youth employment opportunity for every 100 employees, pursuant to Scottish Government’s National Youth Employment Strategy “Developing the Young Workforce”.

Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the JCVI, an independent expert panel which provides impartial advice on matters relating to vaccination.

In light of the JCVI advice we introduced a shingles vaccination programme in 2013. People are eligible for the shingles vaccine in the year they turn 70 up until the age of 80. We also offer the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for everyone aged over 65 years.