- FoI Number
- 2023-750
- Subject
- ASD and ADHD Diagnoses
- Date Received
- 29/02/2024
- Request and Response
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- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Not all children will come to paediatrics for ASD so complete figures cannot be given, as for those referred to Child Health Paediatrics all referrals in the time frame would have to be assessed to obtain the figures. Please see fuller answer below.
Children - 2015-2017 – figures relating to autism referrals and diagnosis were not recorded out with individual files. Individual files would need to be assessed to obtain these figures. The fuller answer below from Paediatrics would be similar to SLT.
Adults – autism pathway only set up in 2022
Year
Number of children diagnosed with Autism in SLT
Number of Adults diagnosis with Autism in SLT
Total
2018
12
12
2019
16
16
2020
22
22
2021
15
15
2022
38
9
47
2023
40
11
51
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of people diagnosed with ADHD
Due to the nature of the data recording this cannot be provided. All referrals to paediatrics are coded as paediatric, therefore every individual referral for the time frame would have to be reviewed. See answer below.
Data not recorded in SLT – ADHD assessments not done in SLT
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder
See answer 1
Children - 2015-2017 – individual files would need to be assessed to obtain figures
Year
Number of children diagnosed with Autism in SLT
2018
12
2019
16
2020
22
2021
15
2022
38
2023
40
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of children diagnosed with ADHD
See answer 2
Data not recorded in SLT – ADHD assessments not done in SLT
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder when older than 5
See answer 1
Year
Number of children age 5 and over diagnosed with Autism in SLT
Number of children age 6 and over diagnosed with Autism in SLT
2018
7
7
2019
14
11
2020
17
13
2021
12
11
2022
37
36
2023
40
35
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of children diagnosed with ADHD when older than 5
See answer 2
Data not recorded in SLT – ADHD assessments not done in SLT
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of appointments for children referred with suspicion of an autism spectrum disorder
See answer 1
Individual files would need to be assessed to obtain these figures.
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of appointments for children over 5 referred with suspicion of an autism spectrum disorder
See answer 1
Individual files would need to be assessed to obtain these figures.
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of appointments for children referred with suspicion of ADHD
See answer 2
Data not recorded in SLT – ADHD assessments not done in SLT
- Since 2015, per calendar year, the number of appointments for children over 5 referred with suspicion of ADHD
See answer 2.
Under FOISA s 12(1), NHS Shetland is not obliged to comply with a request if the estimated cost of doing so exceeds £600. Having reviewed your request, NHS Shetland has determined that the cost of compliance would exceed £600 and so is unable to provide the information requested; we have provided a breakdown of the estimated costs below:
To answer would require manually reviewing every paediatric referral received over this time period. There are 2473 relevant paediatric referrals and we estimate the above process to take an average of 4 minutes per referral. This would therefore take 2473 x 4 = 9892 minutes or in hours 164.86
Staff costs are capped at £15.00 per hour so the cost of responding to this would be 15 x 164.86 - £2472.99 therefore exceeding £600.
Data not recorded in SLT – ADHD assessments not done in SLT
