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Question reference: S5W-33430

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: 20 November 2020
Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 December 2020

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27003 by Jeane Freeman on 19 February 2020, whether it will provide this information regarding the number of sepsis diagnoses for (a) the 2019 calendar year and (b) each month of 2020.

Answer

Information on diagnosis of sepsis is held centrally for patients admitted to hospital.

The following tables present the number of hospital stays with a diagnosis of sepsis at any point during the stay. This is listed by NHS Board of Treatment for the year 2019, and by month for year 2020 up to June. Note that due to changes to coding in October 2017 these figures are not directly comparable with those from previous years.

Table 1: Number of hospital stays 2 with a diagnosis of sepsis 3 ; NHS Scotland;

2019

NHS Board of Treatment	2019

National Waiting Times Centre	25
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	1,535
NHS Borders	549
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	459
NHS Fife	1,428
NHS Forth Valley	983
NHS Grampian	1,244
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	4,803
NHS Highland	842
NHS Lanarkshire	2,432
NHS Lothian	2,560
NHS Orkney	100
NHS Shetland	40
NHS Tayside	1,161
NHS Western Isles	132
Total	18,293

Table 2: Number of hospital stays 2 with a diagnosis of sepsis 3 ; NHS Scotland;

January to June 2020 by month

NHS Board of Treatment	January	February	March	April	May	June	2020 4

National Waiting Times Centre	*	*	0	0	*	*	5
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	116	128	96	88	91	89	608
NHS Borders	38	50	49	29	29	42	237
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	34	38	37	24	22	24	179
NHS Fife	88	95	101	50	67	79	480
NHS Forth Valley	9	9	18	37	48	52	173
NHS Grampian	93	96	86	58	71	74	478
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	376	350	309	183	217	259	1,694
NHS Highland	56	57	47	32	48	48	288
NHS Lanarkshire	188	147	174	107	136	135	887
NHS Lothian	185	172	181	139	158	159	994
NHS Orkney	*	7	13	*	*	5	34
NHS Shetland	*	*	5	*	*	*	22
NHS Tayside	112	97	98	65	54	77	503
NHS Western Isles	8	12	7	5	9	9	50
Total	1312	1261	1221	823	958	1057	6,632

Source: PHS Scotland SMR01 dataset. Reflects the completeness of SMR01 submissions to PHS for individual hospitals
‎ as at 25 November 2020.

1. *Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality.

2. These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

3. A hospital stay is selected if sepsis is recorded at any point during the stay.

4. Data for 2020 includes discharges up to June 2020.

5. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD10) codes used to identify relevant cases: A40, A41, P36, A02.1, A22.7, A26.7, A32.7, A42.7, B37.7, O85X.

6. Year is based on date of discharge

7. Note that the coding of sepsis in Scotland was changed in October 2017 and that figures are not comparable with those from previous years.

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