Scottish Household Survey 2024: Satisfaction with Local Health Services and Sport and Leisure Facilities

Key points

• across Scotland, the percentage of adults who said they were satisfied with the quality of local health services has fallen by 6 percentage points from 67% in 2023 to 61% in 2024.

• 69% of respondents living in Remote Rural areas said they were satisfied with the quality of local health services compared with 63% living in Large Urban Areas and 57% in Other Urban Areas.
• across Scotland, 46% of people said that they were very or fairly satisfied with local authority sport and leisure facilities, 16% of people were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied and 9% were very or fairly dissatisfied. 29% of respondents reported having no opinion on the question.
• 90% of adults agreed that they were treated with dignity and respect by local health services. This is an increase of 3 percentage points from 2023 when 87% of people agreed with the statement.
• 88% of those who lived in the most deprived Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) quintile agreed that they were treated with dignity and respect by local health services, compared to 92% of those living in the least deprived quintile.
• people who have used local authority sport and leisure facilities within the last 12 months are far more likely to be satisfied with them (84%) than all adults (46%).
• of those who have used local authority sport and leisure facilities within the last 12 months, 79% of people with disabilities were very or fairly satisfied with them, compared to 85% of those without disabilities.