Open Data NHS Scotland

About Open Data NHS Scotland

Open Data NHS Scotland is a CKAN-based platform providing access to statistics and reference data for the Scottish health and social care sector. It is managed by Public Health Scotland and offers 104 datasets organized across 4 themes and 23 groups, covering topics such as health board and council area data, emergency department waiting times, and COVID-19 statistics including vaccination, case counts, and surveillance data.

The platform supports dataset search by tags and provides a CKAN API for programmatic access to the data. Content is released under the Open Government Licence, making it available for information and re-use.

This resource is aimed at users seeking public health and social care statistics for Scotland, such as researchers, analysts, and developers building applications or reports that require official Scottish health data.

Key features

• Access to Scottish health and social care statistics and reference data
• 104 datasets organized into 4 themes and 23 groups
• Search datasets by tags such as health board, council area, and coronavirus
• CKAN API for programmatic data access
• Ability to leave comments on datasets

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