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A Scottish Executive Review of Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for Children and Speech and Language Therapy for Adults with Learning Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Appendix I Numbers of children referred to NHS OT, PT and SLTs in 2001/2

Table 1: Numbers of children referred to NHS OT in 2001/2 and rate per WTE state registered OT post

Notes:
* denotes missing figures - these data should be treated with caution.
Grampian - Grampian University Hospitals Trust referrals are for Children's Hospital only and do not include child development teams.
Highland, Lanarkshire and Shetland referral figures are estimated.

Table 2: Numbers of children referred to NHS PT in 2001/2 and rate per WTE state registered PT post

Notes:
* denotes missing figures - these data should be treated with caution.
Grampian - referral figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive.
Greater Glasgow - referral figures are for CDC and acute service only - referrals from schools have not been provided.
Highland - referral figures are for Acute Trust only - figures from Primary CareTrust were unavailable.
Lanarkshire - referral figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive.
Shetland referral figures were unavailable.
Tayside - Data for Child Health services and Ninewells service in Acute Trust only. Primary Care Trust data were unavailable.

There were some differences between the referral patterns in acute settings and community settings. In acute services, a relatively small number of posts provide a service to a relatively large number of children. For example, in Fife, the acute service received 40 child referrals in 2001/2 and have the equivalent of 0.2 posts to provide this service. This gives a referral rate of 200 children per WTE post. The community paediatric service received 600 referrals in 2001/2 and have 10.1 posts to provide this service. This gives a referral rate of 59 children per WTE post. However, the nature of the work undertaken by therapists in acute settings and community settings is very different, community work being more long term. This is just one factor affecting referral rates per WTE.

Table 3: Numbers of children referred to NHS SLT in 2001/2 and rate per WTE state registered SLT post

Notes:
Argyll and Clyde - Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT figures are for 2000/1.
Highland - Information was unavailable.
Tayside - Figures for acute trust only including Ninewells Hospital and Centre for Child Health. Data for Primary Care Trust were unavailable.
Western Isles figures are all estimated.

Table 4: Numbers of children referred to Local Authority services in which OTs work in 2001/2

Table 5: Numbers of children referred to NHS OT per 1000 population

Notes:
Population figures based on GROS mid-year estimates for 2000.
Highland, Lanarkshire and Shetland referral figures are estimated.
Grampian has not been included in this graph as Grampian University Hospitals Trust referrals were for Children's Hospital only and did not include child development teams.
Mean = 1.01 referrals per 1000 population.

Table 6: Numbers of children referred to NHS PT per 1000 population

Notes:
Population figures based on GROS mid-year estimates for 2000.
Figures have not been included when data are missing or incomplete.
Grampian - referral figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive.
Greater Glasgow - referral figures are for CDC and acute service only - referrals from schools have not been provided.
Highland - referral figures are for Acute Trust only - figures from Primary Care Trust were unavailable.
Lanarkshire - referral figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive.
Shetland referral figures were unavailable.
Tayside - Data for Child Health services and Ninewells service in Acute Trust only. PCT data were unavailable.
Mean = 2.22 referrals per 1000 population.

Table 7: Numbers of children referred to NHS SLT per 1000 population

Notes:
Population figures GROS mid year estimates for 2000.
Argyll and Clyde - Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT figures are for 2000/1.
Highland - Information unavailable.
Tayside have not been included as figures available are for acute trust only including Ninewells Hospital and Centre for Child Health. Data for Primary Care Trust were unavailable.
Western Isles figures are estimated.
Mean = 4.05 referrals per 1000 population.

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