People are treated in a variety of settings by the NHS, for example as inpatients to hospital, through outpatient clinics (consultant and nurse led), by their GP and by community health visitor or other community health teams contacts. Although information on some of these forms of treatment is gathered centrally, a number of contacts with the NHS are not recorded centrally, for example visits to nurse-led clinics.Centrally-collected information about contacts with the NHS (for example number of inpatient and day case discharges) is available on the ISD Online website at www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd.