Public Health Scotland hold data relating to people aged 18 and over affected by delayed discharge.Data for August 2024 is not yet available as it is due to be published on 1 October 2024. Therefore Table 1 presents the total number of people aged 18 or over who faced a period of delay, for any reason, in NHS Western Isles between 1 January and 31 July 2024.Table 1: Number of people1 who faced a period of delay in NHS Western Isles hospitals in the period 1 January 2024 to 31 July 2024, by age group.Age Group2Number of individual people who had a delayed discharge episodeNo longer in delay at 31 July 20243Still in delay at 31 July 2024418+93801318-741413175+7967121.Some individuals may have had more than one delay episode in this period, however they have only been counted once.