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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Database and service to help researchers find and make use of health, social care and administrative data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. A not-for-profit charitable organisation created and funded by the Scottish Government, and a partnership between leading universities and public bodies. You may need to apply to access some datasets - see: Data access overview
The following datasets are the first to become available through the Researcher Access Service:
- Outpatient Appointments and Attendances (Scottish Morbidity Record, SMR00, January 1997 onwards)
- General Acute Inpatient and Day Case (Scottish Morbidity Record, SMR01, April 1997 onwards)
- Maternity Inpatient and Day Case (Scottish Morbidity Record, SMR02, April 1997 onwards)
- Mental Health Inpatient and Day Case (Scottish Morbidity Record, SMR04, April 1997 onwards)
- Scottish Cancer Registry (SMR06, April 1997 onwards)
- Prescribing Information System (PIS, January 2015 onwards)
- Scotland Accident and Emergency (January 2011 onwards)
- Birth Registrations (National Records of Scotland, 1981 onwards)
- Death Registrations (National Records of Scotland, 2015 onwards)
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