FOI 26-061 Body temperatures below 34 degrees
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 26-061 Body temperatures below 34 degrees
- Request Date
- 02 Feb 2026
- Response Date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Information Requested
Please find below the following request for information to be considered under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 in relation to ambulance callout requests:
- How many people aged 50 and over, in Scotland called for an ambulance for when a patient's temperature was recorded as below 35 degrees and above 10 degrees
- a) between the period of 1 December – 31 December 2025 (please could you state the number of calls received for each NHS board area)?
- b) between the period of 1 January – 31 January 2026 (please could you state the number of calls received for each NHS board area)?
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the number of patients aged 50 and over 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.
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 persona 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
- Response Documents
