New attendances at different services

Table 1 presents the number of new attendances at services during the year ending 31 March 1999.

The figures are shown according to the service type returning the forms and by the health board and local council area in which the service is located. Table 29 presents similar information by area of residence.

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 1998/99 Just over three quarters of the reports received by the Database are from non-residential drug services (statutory and non-statutory). Nearly one in five reports (17percent) are from General Practitioners.

Source of data, by area of treatment 1998/99 Reports received from services in Greater Glasgow Health Board account for nearly 30 per cent of the total. Just over one in five of the reports (21 per cent) were received from services in Lothian. Services in Argyll and Clyde and Grampian Health Board areas accounted for 15 per cent and 13 per cent of the total respectively. While under-reporting of contacts almost certainly occurs in all areas, Ayrshire & Arran are for various reasons known to be substantially under-reported. Information from the local database, maintained by Ayrshire & Arran Primary Care NHS Trust, reports that there were 1290 presentations at agencies in Ayrshire during the year 1998/99 (921 individuals).