FOI 25-028 'Hypothermia' incidents Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-028 'Hypothermia' incidents Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
- Request Date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Response Date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Information Requested
The number of patients who were brought into A&E with hypothermia or were at risk of hypothermia between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2024. Can you please provide this information broken down by month and health board, if possible?
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the number of patients attended and conveyed to hospital broken down by each NHS Health Board.
The patients indicated in the count presented with a temperature reading of below 35 degrees but above 10 degrees. The Scottish Ambulance Service does not use the definition of hypothermia and cannot confirm hypothermia or risk of hypothermia in the numbers provided. These numbers have been provided for 1st January 2022 – 31st December 2024.
IMPORTANT FOR INTERPRETING THIS INFORMATION
This information has been provided in two tables as a new clinical system is being phased in. This phased system has been in place since June 24 and involves a only portion of Scotland. There is the possibility that that an incident from the Terrapace 3 system could be counted in the Terrapace 2 system and therefore the figures in the table should NOT be added together.
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.
The figures provide in N/A are for incidents do not fall within a defined health board.
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