Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-00309

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 1 June 2016
Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 June 2016

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been diagnosed with dysautonomia in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Answer

As the majority of cases of dysautonomia are diagnosed in an outpatient or GP setting, the number of people diagnosed with this condition is not held centrally. However, the following table shows the number of continuous inpatient stays with a diagnosis of dysautonomia from 2010-11 to 2014-15 by NHS health board of treatment.

Health Board of Treatment	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	-	*	-	*	*
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	39	24	26	29	30
NHS Borders	*	10	17	*	9
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	22	16	17	8	11
NHS Fife	74	34	37	27	19
NHS Forth Valley	22	11	21	21	7
NHS Grampian	58	48	46	43	42
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	113	94	96	137	133
NHS Highland	16	30	42	25	12
NHS Lanarkshire	15	35	38	62	81
NHS Lothian	80	104	74	82	90
NHS Orkney Islands	-	-	-	*	*
NHS Shetland Islands	-	-	-	-	*
NHS Tayside	23	18	22	40	49
NHS Western Isles	-	*	*	*	-
Non-NHS Provider	-	*	*	*	*

Key:

‘*’ Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality.

‘-‘ Indicates that there have been no stays recorded.

Source: Information Services Division Scotland, SMR01

Extracted: 6^th June 2016

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