New attendances at different services

Table 1 presents the number of new attendances at services during the year ending 31 March 1998.

The figures are shown according to the type of agency returning the forms and by the health board and local council area in which the service is located. A summary is shown in Charts 1 and 2 below.

Information on trends in returns by service type and by health board since 1992/93 is presented in Tables 2 and 3.

Source of data, by type of service 1997/98

  • Three quarters of the reports received by the Database are from non­residential drug services (statutory and non­statutory). Nearly one in five reports (18per cent) are from General Practitioners. Data from the Scottish Drug Misuse Database

 

Source of data, by health board1997/98

  • Reports received from services (including GP's) in Greater Glasgow Health Board account for about one third of the total.
  • Just over one in five of the reports (22 per cent) were received from services in Lothian. Services in Argyll and Clyde and Grampian Health Board areas accounted for 16 per cent and 12 per cent of the total respectively.

Note While under­reporting of contacts almost certainly occurs in all areas, two areas in particular, Tayside and Ayrshire & Arran, were for various reasons known to be substantially under­reported

 

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