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Epilepsy: data

Mortality

Overall, there were 96 epilepsy-related deaths in Scotland in 2004:

Table 1: Deaths from epilepsy or Status Epilepticus, Scotland 2004

Epilepsy

Status Epilepticus
Male

47

5

Female

40

4

Both sexes combined

87

9

Source: General Register Office for Scotland GROS Death Data 2004

Practice Team Information

In 2003/2004 there were 39,200 contacts with any member of the practice team to do with epilepsy. The number of patients with epilepsy attending at some point in the year was 18,800. So on average each patient who attended a practice attended twice. The number of people with epilepsy is greater in deprived populations. The Excel file gives greater detail, including age sex and deprivation breakdown and data for the past few years. Further data are available in the following Excel file:

Epilepsy - PTI data Excel file icon(66.5kB)

These figures use Read code groupings used by PTI prior to November 2005. Figures consistent with those in PTIs November 2005 data release will be added to this site shortly