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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.

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.

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.

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”.

The attached link, to ISD Scotland data, outlines the percentage of student nurses who did not complete their courses before graduation in each year since 2007 - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/data-tables2017.asp?id=2115#2115

The following table shows the number of new cases of diabetes amongst those aged 0 to 19 in each year from 2009 to 2016.

Type 2 diabetes: Number of new cases, age 0-19

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.

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.

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

This information is not held centrally. NHS Scotland health boards have fully devolved responsibilities for the for the recruitment, retention and deployment of staff. The Scottish Government works closely with boards to support their recruitment efforts.

Under this government, whole time equivalent staffing levels have increased by over 12,000 (Sept 06 – June 18). Quarterly statistics on vacancies, staffing and turnover are published by NHS Information Services Division.

Over the next 3 years the Scottish Government is investing over £4 million in recruitment and marketing campaigns, which will focus on on attracting GPs, social care workers, nurses and midwives to NHS Scotland.