Publication: NHS in Scotland 2021

by Auditor General

The Scottish Government must focus on transforming health and social care services to address the growing cost of the NHS and its recovery from Covid-19.

Improving the NHS will be very difficult against the competing demands of the pandemic and an increasing number of other policy initiatives, including plans for a National Care Service.

Main report
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News release
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Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland, talks about the report

A transcript of this video is available to download with the other files on this page.

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Exhibit 1: Average daily bed days occupied by patients whose discharge from hospital was delayed
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Exhibit 2: The number of NHS staff absent because of Covid-19
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Exhibit 3: Covid-19 cases, deaths and hospital admissions
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Exhibit 4: National trends in demand for hospital services and activity
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Exhibit 5: Trend in referrals
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Exhibit 6: New and existing workforce commitments
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Exhibit 7: The NHS has introduced innovative new ways of working throughout the pandemic
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Exhibit 8: A breakdown of NHS funding in 2020/21 and key areas of spending
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Case study 1: Data linkage to identify the risk factors to homelessness
Case study 1
Case study 2: NHS Tayside
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