The Scottish Health Survey 2023 - volume 1: main report

Editors’ Acknowledgements

Firstly, we would like to thank the many thousands of adults and children across Scotland for giving up their time to participate in the 2023 survey.

We would also like to thank colleagues who contributed to the survey and this report:

• The ScotCen and Office for National Statistics (ONS) interviewers who worked on the project. The success of the survey is in large part down to the commitment and professionalism they apply to their work every day.
• ONS Field Operations colleagues Dean Fletcher, Julia Moore, Simon Cornish and Hayley Forrest.
• Vicky Wilson for her dedicated management and oversight of the Scottish Health Survey at ScotCen.
• The authors of the chapters: Sophie Birtwistle, Erin Deakin, Sarah Minty, Rory McLelland, Hannah Biggs and Jordan Fox, as well as Lesley Birse for careful checking and formatting.
• Shaza Mahmood, Migle Aleksejunaite and David Hussey whose hard work, attention to detail, knowledge and expertise have been invaluable to the preparation of the survey data as well as extensive analysis input to the report.
• Paul Bradshaw, Susan Reid, Sophie Birtwistle and Hannah Biggs for assistance with editing and checking.
• The principal programmer Iain Templeton, Project Manager Emma Fenn and colleagues in the NatCen Social Research Web & Postal, Data and other survey support teams.
• NatCen Field and Data Collection colleagues including Warren Lovell, Steve Woodland, Anneka Ahilan, Colin Gibb, Callie-Anne Cole, Adrian Ibell, Stephen Booth, Carolyn Morrison, Betty Partington and Aaron Throssell.

Ethical approval for the study was granted by the Research Committee for Wales (17/WA/0371). We are grateful to the committee and its chair Dr Kath Clarke for their careful scrutiny and on-going support.

Finally, special thanks are due to Julie Landsberg, Morag Shepherd, Xanthippi Gounari, Sarah Bierbaum-Williams, Emma Schweidler, Nora Mielke and colleagues in the Scottish Government Health Directorates, for their continued support at all stages of the project.

Victoria Wilson, Hannah Biggs and Susan Reid