Attend Anywhere / Near Me video consulting service evaluation 2019-2020: report

This report presents the findings of an external evaluation of the Attend Anywhere / Near Me video consultations service used across health and care services in Scotland


Appendix C: Attend Anywhere activity across clinical specialty

Table C1: Video consultations activity across different clinical specialties (Jan-Dec 2019).
Clinical Speciality* No. of Health Boards Freq. of video consultations
Gastroenterology 2 698
Haematology 2 622
Psychiatry / Psychology 9 536
Oncology 4 354
Respiratory Medicine 6 305
Ophthalmology 4 292
Dietetics 7 284
Speech and Language 7 291
Endocrinology and Diabetes 6 202
Sleep therapy 1 200
Rehabilitation medicine 4 197
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1 156
Physiotherapy 5 151
Paediatrics 6 144
Dermatology 3 134
Community nursing 2 127
General Surgery 3 123
Neurology 4 117
Clinical Genetics 2 115
Accident and Emergency 2 103
Occupational Therapy 4 94
Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery 3 90
Renal Medicine 3 64
Occupational Health 4 52
Cardiology 2 52
Addiction services 4 44
Rheumatology 2 35
Advice services 4 30
Plastic surgery 2 25
Chiropody/Podiatry 2 23
Pain Management 2 19
Counselling 1 16
Prosthetics/Orthotics 2 14
Infectious diseases 1 12
Community mental health 1 10
Urology 1 8
Sexual and Reproductive Health 1 6
Total - 5745**

*Speciality is the grouping of services by clinical area. Health Boards may have more than one service within a particular speciality.
**Excludes activity data for services that conducted less than five consultations during the data collection period and where it was not possible to determine clinical context of the consultation.

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