Whether it will provide comparative details of emergency admission rates to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary before and after the intr…

NHS 24 integrated with NHS Dumfries and Galloway on 18 November 2003.
The table shows information on emergency admissions for the years ending 31 October 2000-04.
NHS Board of Residence
| Year Ending 31 October

| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003
| 2004P

Dumfries and Galloway
|
|
|
|
|

Emergency admissions
| 12,977
| 13,206
| 13,100
| 12,110
| 11,391

Crude Rate per 1,000 population
| 88.0
| 89.4
| 88.9
| 82.3
| 77.0

Standardised Discharge Ratio
| 89.4
| 89.1
| 88.1
| 82.1
| 76.4

Scotland
|
|
|
|
|

Emergency admissions
| 465,247
| 474,194
| 473,599
| 467,621
| 470,803

Crude Rate per 1,000 population
| 91.9
| 93.6
| 93.7
| 92.5
| 92.7

Standardised Discharge Ratio
| 100.0
| 100.0
| 100.0
| 100.0
| 100.0

PProvisional.
Notes:
1. Figures are provided for Dumfries and Galloway NHS board of residence rather than Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary to permit the calculation of crude/standardised admission rates using residence-based population estimates.
2. Standardised discharge ratio (SDR) is an indirectly standardised rate (standardised for age and sex). The reference population, to which the Dumfries and Galloway rates are standardised, is the number of emergency admissions for Scottish residents in each of the years presented.
3. Year ending 31 October is chosen as it provides the closest comparator to the introduction of NHS24 in NHS Dumfries and Galloway.