Carbon Monoxide poisoning

Freedom of Information Request

Reference
012/23
Request Date
06 Jan 2023
Response Date
24 Jan 2023
Information Requested

Can you tell me how many people were taken to hospital with Carbon Monoxide poisoning in 2022 and 2021. Can I have a breakdown for health board area please?

Response

Please see the table below showing the number of incidents attended where ‘Household Products Carbon Monoxide’ has been manually input into a record by the attending ambulance clinicians broken down by health board.

 

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. 

 

 

2021

2022

Ayrshire and Arran

<5

 

Dumfries and Galloway

<5

 

Forth Valley

<5

<5

Grampian

<5

<5

Greater Glasgow and Clyde

6

<5

Highland

<5

<5

Lanarkshire

<5

 

Lothian

 

<5

Tayside

 

<5

 

 

 

 

2021

2022

Scotland

17

12

Response Documents

FOISA Disclosure Log 012 (PDF | 108KB)