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6 May 2011
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26 April 2011
Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland - NHS Board Monitoring Report

The Action Plan for Improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services was published in 2005. It set out the then Scottish Executive's policy and plans for dentistry and dental public health for the next 3 years. This plan has brought considerable investment to dentistry: an increase in the NHS funding of primary care dental services. This has been continued with the Scottish Government. To ensure this investment is achieving its goals a range of targets has been set around oral health improvement, primary care dental service delivery and quality, and dental workforce and training.

This report monitors NHS boards' progress made towards the targets at both local and national level and covers the last 6 months of the calendar year 2010.
Targets are monitored across 4 key areas:

• Oral Health Improvement
• Workforce
• Services
• Quality of Services.

29 March 2011
Healthy Life Expectancy

• Underlying trends in both LE and HLE at birth show a general improvement in Scotland over recent years.
• There is a major discontinuity in the HLE series between 2008 and 2009 due to a change in methodology to align with the European Union. For each sex, the estimate of HLE at birth for Scotland for 2009 is over 8 years lower, and cannot be considered as part of the same series as earlier years. The 2009 estimate will become the first point in a new time trend for future years.
• The most recent single year estimates for Scotland are for the average boy born in 2009 to live to 76.0 years, 60.0 of these in 'healthy' health. The average girl born in 2009 would be expected to live to 80.6 years, 62.2 of them in 'healthy' health.

29 March 2011
Childhood Cancers in Scotland

• In the period 1983-2007, there were 3,235 children under the age of 15 diagnosed with some form of cancer, representing an average of 130 cases per year and less than 1% of all cancers diagnosed in Scotland each year, with a general increase over time.
• In the same period, 815 children died of cancer, with a general (but not statistically significant) decrease in mortality from childhood cancer over the time period.
• Survival from childhood cancers has generally increased over the 25 year period in all follow-up intervals analysed (1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 years after diagnosis).

29 March 2011
Teenage and Young Adult Cancers in Scotland

• In the 30 year period 1979-2008 there were 5,267 cancers diagnosed in persons aged between 15 and 24 years, an average of 176 per year and representing less than 1% of malignant neoplasms diagnosed in a given year. Incidence has risen over that period, but has been largely stable over the last two 5 year periods with the exception of some specific types of cancer.
• The observed survival rate has increased over the same time period: for all cancers combined, survival at one year after diagnosis has increased by 11 percentage points, to approximately 94% of diagnoses, while five year survival has increased by 16 percentage points to 83%.

29 March 2011
Cancer Waiting Times (October – December 2010)

• 95.7% of patients started treatment within 62 days of urgent referral with suspicion of cancer; a decrease of 1.6 percentage points compared to the period July – September 2010.
• 97.1% of patients started treatment within 31 days of decision to treat (regardless of the route of referral); a fall of 1.0 percentage point compared to the period July – September 2010.
• The target, for both the 31-day and 62-day, set by the Scottish Government is 95% by October – December 2011

29 March 2011
Acute Hospital Activity and NHS Beds

• There were around 347,000 acute inpatient and day case discharges in the quarter ending December 2010. This is a decrease of 2.4% when compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
• The total number of outpatient attendances in the quarter ending December 2010 was around 1,090,000. A decrease of over 40,000 when compared to the quarter ending December 2009.
  

Also published on 29 March 2011 were:

Prescribing Statistics

Prescribing Statistics (Remuneration and Charges)

Drug Treatment Waiting Times

National Resource Allocation Committee 2011/12 target allocation shares

ScotPHO website annual updates

Support Needs System Summary Statistics 2010

24 March 2011
Childhood Immunisation uptake rates, quarter and year ending 31 December 2010

• In Scotland as a whole, quarterly uptake rates by 24 months of age for primary courses of immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, MenC and PCV remain high and stable at around 96% to 98%.
• Quarterly uptake of one dose of MMR vaccine by 24 months is 92.7% (the previous quarterly figure was 93.1%). Quarterly uptake by 5 years of age is 96.2% (same as the previous quarterly figure).
• Quarterly uptake of the Hib/MenC and PCV boosters by 24 months remains relatively stable at around 93%.

24 March 2011
HPV Immunisation Uptake Statistics

• Interim statistics for Year 3 of the HPV immunisation programme (September 2010 to August 2011), show uptake rates for girls currently in S2 in school year 2010/11, have already reached 91.2% for the first dose and 85.5% for the second dose.
• Uptake rates are likely to increase slightly, for the second dose in particular, as some girls may have missed the early HPV vaccinations sessions in school and have therefore started their course of HPV vaccinations later in the school year.
• Updated uptake rates for these girls, including uptake rates for the third dose, will be published in September 2011.

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