Publications

This specimen Patient Group Direction template has been produced by Public Health Scotland to assist NHS boards.

This report presents provisional information on laboratory reports of norovirus in Scotland compared to the same time last year and the average for the same time period of the previous five years.

This release is a weekly report on epidemiological information on seasonal influenza activity in Scotland. Due to COVID health care services are functioning differently now compared to previous flu seasons so the consultation rates are not directly comparable to historical data.

Support those working in health protection teams (HPTs) across Scotland in managing Monkeypox cases and contacts.

This report provides interim findings from the Public Health Scotland (PHS) evaluation of the COVID-19 vaccination programme to May 2022.

This release provides data on hospital onset COVID-19 infections in Scotland. A system for monitoring COVID-19 is critical to tracking hospital transmission. This will inform control measures. Please note: this release is produced by National Services Scotland (NSS) who work very closely with PHS.

The serology work stream aims to estimate the proportion of people who have antibodies to coronavirus ("seroprevalence") in the general population of Scotland and to see if this changes over time.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) initiated an evaluation of the flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes in October 2020. This is an interim report describing our approach, work completed to date, a summary of the findings, initial recommendations for the programme, and next steps.

As part of the evaluation of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Public Health Scotland conducted interviews with health board leadsto learn from their experiences of leading the local implementation of the vaccination programme across Scotland.

COVID-19 Antibody Survey of education Staff (CASS) uses blood tests to monitor the number of people working in education in Scotland who have coronavirus antibodies, and how this changes over the school year 2020/21.