Question reference: S5W-29992
- Asked by: Richard Lyle, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 16 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many sleep tests each NHS board has carried out in each of the last five years on people with (a) obstructive sleep apnoea and (b) other sleep disorders.
Answer
The number of sleep tests for patients with sleep apnoea and other sleep disorders in each NHS board from 2015 to 2019 is shown in table 1 and table 2 respectively.
Table 1: Number of sleep tests for patients with sleep apnoea; Calendar year 2015 to 2019 | |||||
NHS Board of Treatment | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019p |
National Waiting Times Centre | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Borders | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
NHS Fife | 59 | 49 | 51 | 36 | 1 |
NHS Forth Valley | - | - | - | - | 1 |
NHS Grampian | 12 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 23 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 262 | 215 | 179 | 164 | 136 |
NHS Highland | 125 | 120 | 98 | 64 | 63 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
NHS Lothian | 353 | 300 | 453 | 390 | 476 |
NHS Orkney | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Shetland | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Tayside | 3 | - | 3 | 2 | 1 |
NHS Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - |
Non-NHS Provider/Location | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 823 | 704 | 810 | 674 | 710 |
p Indicates provisional data. | |||||
Source: PHS Scotland, SMR01. | |||||
Date extracted: June 2020. | |||||
Table 2: Number of sleep tests for patients with other sleep disorders; | |||||
Calendar year 2015 to 2019 | |||||
NHS Board of Treatment | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019p |
National Waiting Times Centre | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Borders | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | - |
NHS Fife | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | - |
NHS Forth Valley | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Grampian | 22 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 161 | 195 | 225 | 190 | 210 |
NHS Highland | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 3 |
NHS Lanarkshire | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
NHS Lothian | 1,152 | 1,032 | 835 | 788 | 785 |
NHS Orkney | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Shetland | - | - | - | - | - |
NHS Tayside | - | - | 4 | 16 | 13 |
NHS Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - |
Non-NHS Provider/Location | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 1,360 | 1,262 | 1,087 | 1,014 | 1,015 |
p Indicates provisional data. | |||||
Source: PHS Scotland, SMR01. | |||||
Date extracted: June 2020. | |||||