FOI 25-001 Inter-Hospital Transfers from Caithness and Dunbar for 2024
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-001 Inter-Hospital Transfers from Caithness and Dunbar for 2024
- Request Date
- 01 Jan 2025
- Response Date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Information Requested
I wish to make a Freedom of Information Request for the number of ambulance transfers from the following hospitals
Caithness General Hospital KW1 5NS.
Dunbar Hospital KW14 7XE.
To the following hospitals in 2024
Raigmore Hospital IV2 3UJ.
New Craig's Psychiatric Hospital IV3 8NP.
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary AB25 2ZN.
Dundee Ninewells Hospital DD2 1SG.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary EH16 4SA.
Glasgow Royal Infirmary G51 6SA.
Glasgow Queen Elizabeth Hospital G51 4TF.
- Response
Please see the table below detailing the number of inter-hospital transfers from Caithness General Hospital and Dunbar Hospital to the hospitals requested. The date range requested is 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2024 inclusive and the figures include all types of transfer by land or air. Where no information is given for a requested hospital, no inter-hospital transfers took place.
All Incidents
Caithness General Hospital (Wick)
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (Aberdeen)
16
New Craigs Hospital (Inverness)
9
Ninewells Hospital (Dundee)
<5
Raigmore Hospital (Inverness)
433
Royal Infirmary (Glasgow)
<5
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Edinburgh)
<5
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
