Question reference: S5W-29993
- 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 people in each NHS board area have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea, also broken down by how many have been given a continuous positive airway pressure machine.
Answer
The following tables provide numbers of patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of sleep apnoea and the number of these patients receiving treatment using non-invasive ventilation, including continuous positive airways pressure. Until 2020 it has not been possible to identify continuous positive airways pressure separately. Information is shown by NHS board area from 2015 to 2019 in tables 1 and 2.
Table 1: Number of patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of sleep | ||||||
apnoea at least once during each year, and recorded as receiving treatment using | ||||||
non-invasive ventilation; 2015 to 2019 | ||||||
NHS Board of Treatment | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019p | |
National Waiting Times Centre | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
NHS Borders | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
NHS Fife | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
NHS Forth Valley | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
NHS Grampian | 16 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 8 | |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 27 | 42 | 35 | 48 | 37 | |
NHS Highland | 18 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 14 | |
NHS Lanarkshire | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |
NHS Lothian | 658 | 658 | 650 | 733 | 692 | |
NHS Orkney | - | - | - | - | - | |
NHS Shetland | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
NHS Tayside | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
NHS Western Isles | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | |
Non-NHS Provider/Location | - | - | - | - | - | |
Total | 735 | 748 | 719 | 815 | 770 | |
p Indicates provisional data. | ||||||
Source: PHS Scotland, SMR01. | ||||||
Date extracted: June 2020. | ||||||
Table 2: Number of patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of | ||||||
sleep apnoea at least once in each year, but not recorded as receiving | ||||||
treatment using non-invasive ventilation; 2015 to 2019 | ||||||
NHS Board of Treatment | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019p | |
National Waiting Times Centre | 35 | 38 | 41 | 69 | 72 | |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 82 | 70 | 63 | 75 | 123 | |
NHS Borders | 48 | 23 | 30 | 34 | 29 | |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 108 | 125 | 104 | 83 | 116 | |
NHS Fife | 185 | 200 | 193 | 191 | 224 | |
NHS Forth Valley | 24 | 31 | 49 | 58 | 47 | |
NHS Grampian | 216 | 249 | 243 | 255 | 254 | |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 799 | 744 | 629 | 669 | 701 | |
NHS Highland | 251 | 287 | 284 | 259 | 280 | |
NHS Lanarkshire | 136 | 163 | 161 | 195 | 172 | |
NHS Lothian | 643 | 602 | 686 | 656 | 673 | |
NHS Orkney | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
NHS Shetland | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | |
NHS Tayside | 127 | 139 | 125 | 122 | 129 | |
NHS Western Isles | 3 | 5 | - | 5 | 4 | |
Non-NHS Provider/Location | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Total | 2,676 | 2,690 | 2,620 | 2,684 | 2,846 | |
p Indicates provisional data. | ||||||
Source: PHS Scotland, SMR01. | ||||||
Date extracted: June 2020. | ||||||