FOI 25-120 Naloxone Usage by Council Area 2023-2024
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-120 Naloxone Usage by Council Area 2023-2024
- Request Date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Response Date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Information Requested
Could the info in 25-038 be provided in a geographic breakdown by local authority district or first half of postcode (whichever is quickest)?
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the information requested broken down by Council Area weekly and yearly from 02/01/2023 - 29/12/2024. Any further breakdown of information will result in the numbers being too small to report on.
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 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.
Point to note – This is a count of cases where the crew used the Naloxone (Narcan) drug button on the patient report forms. This count will not include cases where Naloxone was administered by bystanders or from the patient’s own supply.
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.
- Response Documents
