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Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data

Scottish health statistics from Public Health Scotland on CKAN: respiratory infections, immunization uptake, and hospital waits.

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About

The Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data platform is the primary open data service operated by Public Health Scotland (PHS) on behalf of NHS Scotland. Built on the CKAN open source data management platform, the repository provides machine-readable datasets spanning infectious disease surveillance, respiratory virus lab detections, hospital emergency department attendances, cancer wait times, and immunization coverage across Scottish NHS health boards.

Through Fibric, an operator references regional Scottish health indicators and clinical service pressures, proposing adjusted workforce shift staffing, local facility health notices, and occupational welfare programs across operational hubs in Scotland.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Weekly laboratory detections and test positivity percentages for respiratory pathogens across Scottish NHS board areas
  • Accident and Emergency (A&E) department attendance numbers, waiting times, and four-hour standard compliance rates
  • Childhood and seasonal adult immunization uptake rates broken down by Scottish local authority and NHS board
  • Hospital inpatient admissions and delayed discharge statistics tracking acute care system capacity in Scotland
  • CKAN REST API endpoints supporting SQL-like Datastore search and direct CSV dataset downloads

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Adjust Scottish logistics facility shifts during winter illness peaks

    Monitor weekly NHS Scotland respiratory virus detections, proposing backup shift reserves and overtime allocations for warehouses in affected health board regions.

    With Shift Coverage, Open Shift Offer

  • Track healthcare emergency capacity near Scottish commercial centers

    Evaluate monthly Scottish A&E wait times and hospital discharge delays, proposing local occupational health clinic resources during periods of regional healthcare backlog.

    With Site Benchmark, Compliance Evidence

Requirements

  • HTTP client capable of querying the CKAN Datastore API (datastore_search endpoint) via GET or POST requests
  • Mapping logic linking Scottish NHS Board codes (e.g., S08000015) and council areas to corporate facility locations
  • Date parsing to handle Scottish weekly reporting intervals aligned with Sunday week-ending dates
Authentication
None. The Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data CKAN API is publicly accessible without API keys, tokens, or registration requirements.

Limits

  • Geographic coverage is strictly confined to Scotland and its fourteen regional NHS health boards
  • Datasets update on varying cycles, with respiratory surveillance publishing weekly and acute care metrics updating monthly
  • Small cell counts are suppressed in public tables to maintain individual patient anonymity under PHS disclosure protocols

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

What platform hosts Scottish health open data?
Public Health Scotland hosts open datasets on a CKAN-powered data portal accessible at opendata.nhs.scot.
What geographic divisions are used in Scottish health data?
Data is reported by Scotland national totals, fourteen regional NHS Health Boards, and 32 local council areas.
What license applies to Public Health Scotland open data?
Data is published under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3.0), permitting free reuse in commercial and non-commercial software.
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This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Public Health Scotland (NHS Scotland / opendata.nhs.scot). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy