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The numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in table 1.

The numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in Table 1.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

NHS boards in Scotland report their sickness absence rates based on contracted hours lost rather than days lost, due to different shift patterns in the NHS Scotland workforce. The latest available information is given in the following table. As can be seen, the rate of sickness absence has fallen from a high of 5.55% in 2007 to 4.95% in 2009 and this represents over 1 million more hours being available to NHSScotland.

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data is collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the Background section of the Workforce Statistics website at:

www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Hours Lost Due to Sickness Absence by NHS Board

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.

Information on the numbers of staffed available beds and bed occupancy in NHS Hospitals in Scotland is published on the NHS National Services Scotland Information Services Division website at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.

It should be noted that the range of facilities provided by hospitals (including inpatient beds) makes up only a small proportion of the total services provided by the NHS in Scotland.