Question reference: S6W-01811
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 23 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 11 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of individuals have (a) requested and (b) received hospital-based palliative care, broken down by NHS board area, for the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
The information about the number of individuals requesting hospital-based palliative care is not collected centrally.
The following table shows the number of people recorded as receiving inpatient palliative care in 2019-20. However, this information may not reflect the totality of hospital-based palliative care as it only contains the patients recorded under the care of a palliative medicine consultant, in a Palliative care unit or diagnosed with a Palliative care condition.
NHS Board of Residence | Number of individuals |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 273 |
NHS Borders | 381 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 284 |
NHS Fife | 451 |
NHS Forth Valley | 354 |
NHS Grampian | 881 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 1379 |
NHS Highland | 529 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 307 |
NHS Lothian | 678 |
NHS Orkney | 78 |
NHS Shetland | 21 |
NHS Tayside | 546 |
NHS Western Isles | 51 |
Not Known | 24 |
Table 1: Number of individuals recorded as receiving inpatient palliative care by NHS Board of Residence in 2019-20.