Our organisation is the national surveillance centre for communicable diseases and health problems associated with environmental hazards. At the heart of our operations is the collection of accurate and timely data and it underpins all our activities in protecting the nation's health.
Surveillance information is provided to us through an extensive surveillance network which includes:
- laboratories
- hospitals
- general practitioners
- NHS boards
- local authorities
We also contribute surveillance information at a UK and international level through close collaboration with these specialist agencies.
Health protection epidemiology surveillance reports
This list is our latest surveillance reports that provide data and analysis on health protection topics.
- Laboratory reports of norovirus in Scotland 06 Aug 2020
- General bacterial, protozoal and viral outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease, 2019 14 Jul 2020
- Quarterly epidemiological data on Clostridioides difficile infection, Escherichia coli bacteraemia, Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and Surgical Site Infection in Scotland. Januray to March (Q1) 2020 07 Jul 2020
- Implementation of HIV PreExposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Scotland: Minimum Dataset Reporting, 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2019 23 Jun 2020
- HIV in Scotland: update to 31 December 2019 23 Jun 2020
- Overseas outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease 2019 09 Jun 2020
- Immunisation and vaccine-preventable diseases quarterly reports. January to March 2020 02 Jun 2020
- Gonococcal antibiotic surveillance in Scotland (GASS): prevalence, patterns and trends in 2019 26 May 2020
- Genital chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection in Scotland: laboratory diagnoses 2010-2019 26 May 2020
- Syphilis in Scotland, 2019: update 26 May 2020
Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland (ECOSS)
We've developed the ECOSS system to capture lab results from diagnostic and reference laboratories for analysis by our surveillance teams. Results used for surveillance purposes are selected using a set of rules that are organism and, in some cases, specimen specific. It's a national tool for monitoring organisms, infections and microbial intoxications that are of clinical or public health importance.