FOI 26-247 Discharges by Emergency vehicles in the Borders
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 26-247 Discharges by Emergency vehicles in the Borders
- Request Date
- 28 May 2026
- Response Date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Information Requested
Please advise how many emergency ambulances have undertaken discharges from the borders general hospital in the last 6 months. Please break it down into weeks and times if possible.
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the information requested.
This information has been identified using the following criteria:
- Resource Type = Accident and Emergency
- Journey Type = Discharge Journey
- From Hospital = Borders General Hospital
This has been broken down by month from 01/12/2025 - 31/05/2026.
The Scottish Ambulance Service cannot identify cancelled discharge journeys by A&E resources therefore the information provided only includes completed journeys.
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 but more than zero. 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
