Reading Time: 68 minutes This timeline provides information on Scotland’s response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and includes all major developments.
Category: Health
NHS and Social Care over Winter 2022-23
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog discusses some of the potential challenges facing the NHS and social care services this winter.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Which neighbourhoods have the most cases?
Reading Time: 2 minutes This blog looks at COVID-19 cases in Scotland by neighbourhood, based on data from Public Health Scotland.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): deaths at a local level in Scotland
Reading Time: < 1 minute This post looks at data from the National Records of Scotland which breaks down deaths from coronavirus (COVID-19) at a local level.
Monkeypox – Origin, prevalence, and management
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog explores issues around the origins, prevalence and management of the recent monkeypox outbreak.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Vaccinations in Scotland – latest data
Reading Time: 2 minutes This blog looks at data from Public Health Scotland and the Scottish Government daily data on the number of vaccinations which have been administered in Scotland.
What is ethical commissioning and why does it matter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog explores ethical commissioning as part of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.
The National Care Service will be here soon…or will it?
Reading Time: 9 minutes This extended blog will have a brief look inside the National Care Service Bill, now it’s arrived and consider what’s in it, and, perhaps more interestingly, what is not.
Rural health and social care in Scotland
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog outlines when rural health and social care has been discussed in the Scottish Parliament and some of the recent and forthcoming developments.
Surgical mesh complications
Reading Time: 8 minutes This blog provides an overview of surgical mesh complications in Scotland, the Scottish Government’s action on this issue, and outlines the need for more information.