HC Deb 11 November 1996 vol 285 cc56-7W
Mr. Bill Walker

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the report into the provision of community care in Tayside will be presented. [1937]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Angus Skinner, the chief social work inspector, has completed his report on community care services in Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross. It will be published on 14 November 1996.

Mortality rates
Neonatal Perinatal
Health board area 1992 1993 1994 19951 19923 1993 1994 19952
Scotland 4.6 4.0 4.0 4.0 9.0 9.6 9.0 9.6
Argyll and Clyde 4.6 4.4 5.1 4.3 8.3 11.6 9.3 9.7
Ayrshire and Arran 5.5 3.7 2.1 4.5 9.9 8.3 7.6 12.6
Borders 5.0 1.7 2.6 10.0 5.2 6.1 6.8
Dumfries and Galloway 5.7 4.1 6.3 4.3 8.0 9.3 13.1 8.5
Fife 4.2 4.4 4.6 3.5 6.5 9.3 8.7 7.7
Forth Valley 3.5 3.9 1.9 3.8 8.6 10.7 8.4 11.2
Grampian 4.2 3.3 4.4 2.9 9.1 9.1 10.0 6.8
Greater Glasgow 5.3 5.3 4.7 5.2 9.8 9.9 9.5 11.9
Highland 3.0 3.9 2.4 3.3 8.1 9.8 8.4 6.2
Lanarkshire 4.4 4.4 2.7 4.0 11.0 10.1 8.6 10.5
Lothian 5.4 3.3 4.7 4.2 9.7 9.2 8.7 9.3
Orkney 4.2 8.0 12.4 4.2 15.8 8.6
Shetland 3.1 3.2 3.2 6.4 3.2 6.8
Tayside 3.3 3.0 4.1 3.2 6.5 9.0 8.1 8.2
Western Isles 3.0 7.1 3.3 3.3 6.0 14.0 16.4 9.9
1 Deaths in the first four weeks of life, rate per 1,000 live births.
2 Still-births and deaths in the first week of life, rate per 1,000 live and still-births.
3 The Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 redefined still-births. from 1 October 1992, to include losses between 24 and 27 weeks gestation. The perinatal mortality rates in this table include all still-births registered in 1992.