Mental Health & Wellbeing
Information for Professionals
Resources
ScotPHO profiles on Mental Health
ScotPHO has dashboards on both adult mental health and child mental health – this link takes you to the dashboard landing page. They allow filtration of mental health data through council area, health board, HSC locality, HSC partnership, intermediate zone, police division, and Scotland. Results can be compared to the national average with download facility available. Indicators are wide ranging and vary by the child vs adult dashboard. Indicators include mental health outcomes, such as adult mental wellbeing score, individual components such as children’s sleep quality, community determinants such as adult victims of non-violent crime, or children having a trusted adult, structural determinants such as unemployment rate.
Mental Health Inpatient Activity
This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents information on patients with mental health conditions treated as inpatients in Scottish NHS inpatient facilities. Data are included for patients receiving inpatient care in psychiatric facilities (Scottish Morbidity Record 04, SMR04) and patients receiving care as inpatients and day cases in non-psychiatric (acute) hospitals where the patient was recorded as having a mental health condition (Scottish Morbidity Record 01, SMR01). Trend data and ‘data explorer’ included.
Mental Health Quality Indicators Profile
Public Health Scotland dashboard on Mental Health Quality Indicators provides enhanced visualisation, and sub-national data analysis (where available). With links to the Mental health and wellbeing strategy 2023 and Core mental health standards. Mental Health Quality Indicators themes covered are: adult, child and adolescent, drugs or alcohol, suicide, community follow up, physical violence, carers, patients at home, feeling listened to, advance statements and delayed discharge.
Dashboard for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Waiting Times
Learning disabilities and complex care needs statistics
Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides an update on quarterly statistics for Scotland. Data Files are available, breaking data down to council area. The statistics provide insight of local and national data to support the Scottish Government’s work to improve monitoring of people with Learning disabilities and complex care needs who are in hospital, in out-of-area placement and whose current support arrangements are at risk of breaking down.
Psychological therapies waiting times
Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides an update on how long people of all ages waited to start treatment with Psychological Therapies in NHS Scotland. This site produces datasets and a Dashboard containing datasets for CAMHS, Psychological Therapies and Older Adults (65+) and allows multiple filtering options, can be filtered down to health board level.
Map of proportion of population prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression and psychosis
Through the use of digital maps, this web resource allows you to visualise the proportion of the population being prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression or psychosis, in Scotland. Availability can be explored at the neighbourhood level using the geography of Scottish Government Data Zones.
North Lanarkshire
Joint Strategic Commissioning Plan
The Strategic Commissioning Plan sets out how the Health & Social Care Partnership plans and delivers services for North Lanarkshire. The Plan provides data on population change, life expectancy trends, poverty and deprivation, along with critical public-health indicators such as the drug-related death rate and alcohol-related mortality.
The document also contains the Strategic Needs Analysis, P33, presenting data on demographics, population projections, life expectancy, care-at-home provision, unscheduled care activity, self-directed support, delayed discharge trends, and long-term conditions. It further explores the needs of children and young people, mental health, care in the last six months of life, outpatient activity, cancer incidence, births and deaths, smoking prevalence, primary care demand, and broader health inequalities.
South Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire joint Strategic Need Assessment
The Strategic Needs Assessment for South Lanarkshire HSCP provides a detailed analysis of local health and social care needs. It covers population demographics, life expectancy, and health inequalities, alongside lifestyle factors like smoking, alcohol use, and mental health. The report highlights the social determinants affecting health, and patterns in healthcare service use. It also identifies disparities in access and outcomes, guiding targeted strategies to improve health equity and service delivery in the community.
