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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 2A2 NHS hospital activity by health board area, year ending 31 March 1997 |
(rate per 100,000 population1) |
Health Board area of residence |
Inpatient waiting list 6 |
Inpatient "Discharges 2, 3, 4 |
Day cases 3 |
New outpatients 3, 5 |
| Scotland 7 | 931 |
15,958 |
6,747 |
26,598 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 969 |
16,239 |
6,412 |
25,993 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 976 |
15,602 |
7,496 |
25,257 |
| Borders | 864 |
17,008 |
8,264 |
24,424 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 821 |
15,175 |
5,932 |
22,482 |
| Fife | 944 |
14,608 |
8,877 |
27,001 |
| Forth Valley | 860 |
14,443 |
6,283 |
24,542 |
| Grampian | 946 |
15,693 |
4,469 |
21,749 |
| Greater Glasgow | 1,008 |
17,533 |
6,722 |
31,805 |
| Highland | 920 |
17,129 |
5,052 |
23,999 |
| Lanarkshire | 959 |
15,654 |
7,778 |
25,760 |
| Lothian | 767 |
15,070 |
7,481 |
25,380 |
| Orkney | 687 |
15,111 |
3,369 |
14,116 |
| Shetland | 1,169 |
15,986 |
5,122 |
20,421 |
| Tayside | 997 |
16,241 |
6,268 |
32,469 |
| Western Isles | 976 |
20,332 |
4,823 |
22,919 |
Source: ISD Scotland, Common Services Agency |
| 1 Rates based on resident health board area population 1996, as estimated by the Registrar General, Scotland. |
| 2 Comprise discharges, deaths, transfers out of hospital and transfers between specialties within same hospital. |
| 3 Provisional. |
| 4 Inpatient discharges refer to non-psychiatric, non-obstetric hospitals only. |
| 5 At consultant clinics. Excludes accident & emergency and genito-urinary medicine departments. |
| 6 As at 31 March 1997. Inpatient true waiting list - excludes day case waiting lists, and repeal and deferred waiting lists. |
| 7 Excludes patients resident outwith Scotland and those whose address was not recorded. |
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