FOI 25-156 Cardiac Arrest/Heart Problem Figures
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-156 Cardiac Arrest/Heart Problem Figures
- Request Date
- 01 Apr 2025
- Response Date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Information Requested
Please provide as csv file with data by age group and sex from 2010 (or earliest available data) to latest available data for:
1. All "cardiac arrest" ambulance attendances and allocations
2. All "heart problems" ambulance attendances and allocations
3. All "chest pain" ambulance attendances and allocations
Preferred age groups are 15-44, 45-64, 65-74, 75-84, 85+ but if data has been collected with different groupings please provide them instead- Response
Please see the attached data sheet detailing the number of ambulance allocations for ‘Chest Pains’, ‘Heart Problems’ and ‘Cardiac Arrests’ broken down by gender and age. Anyone under the age of 15 has been excluded from these figures.
Data has been provided from 01/01/2012 - 31/03/2025
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 a portion of Scotland. There is the possibility 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.
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