The 2025 firework injuries audit begins collecting data on Saturday 25 October.
Last year you helped Care of Burns in Scotland (COBIS) gather data on firework injuries around Guy Fawkes. There were 41 injuries recorded over a 4-week period.
This year’s firework injuries audit will begin on Saturday 25 October and run until Saturday 22 November inclusive.
As ever, we would appreciate your department’s help in collecting data about patients attending Minor Injury Units (MIU) and Emergency Departments (ED) with firework-related injuries.
What we need you to do
- Please print off and display the attached poster (A4 size) prominently in staff only areas in your MIU or ED no later than Friday 24 October.
- For every firework-related injury please scan the QR code or click the link below to fill out the form (it takes no more than 2 minutes)
- Ask staff to fill the form out at handover announcements/ briefings
- When patients are being booked in, please record the term ‘firework’ with any firework-related injury
How to provide data
For each presentation with a firework injury please fill out a separate online form.
If using health board tablets or smartphones, the QR code on the attached poster will also take you to the mobile form.
Information governance
The data collected is anonymous. We ask for the patient’s home post code to analyse data against the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Additionally, the question set has been approved by the respective Caldicott Guardian and information governance leads within NHS National Services Scotland.
What happens next
Data from this survey will be collated and presented to the Scottish Government Safer Communities Directorate and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
All departments who support the audit will be formally acknowledged once the survey closes.
For further information please contact: nss.cobis@nhs.scot
Thank you for your support.
Care of Burns in Scotland team (COBIS)
National Managed Clinical Network