FOI 26-290 Patient Fall Incidents
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 26-290 Patient Fall Incidents
- Request Date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Response Date
- 22 Jul 2026
- Information Requested
For each calendar year from 2019 to 2026 (most recent):
The total number of incidents where a patient fall was reported, broken down by hospital.
Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act I understand that I can specify the format that the response takes. Please therefore provide the details in an excel spreadsheet
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the total number of incidents conveyed to hospital with the final code of 'Fall'. This information has been broken down by year and the receiving hospital.
Important information to consider when interpreting this data
This report has been produced in two parts, this is due to the ongoing integration of a new system. This data cannot be merged into one table due to an overlap in a phased introduction of each system and the methodology for the data time frames is different.
The first tab of the sheet takes data collected from our legacy system (T2) and the second tab of the sheet details data collected from (T3); these figures 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 but greater 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
