Table 2.

Starting point of each CUP for patients (18+) in the last year of life in Scotland 2016 by CUP start time (in-hours or out-of-hours).

First CUP element	In-hours	Out-of-hours	Unknown	Total
NHS 24	5203	70,743		75,946
Primary care out-of-hours	1514	27,275		28,789
Scottish ambulance service	37,061	22,408		59,469
Hospital emergency department attendance	12,737	10,185		22,922
Emergency hospital admission		978	13,489*	14,467
First CUP element unknown	1496	2146	362	4004
Total	56,515	131,589	13,489	205,597**

^*A direct hospital admission does not have a time stamp just date information. This means in-hours and out-of-hours admissions cannot be differentiated on weekdays.

^**1,244 CUPs have not been counted in this table. 695 started with a mental health admission (not analysed in this paper) and the rest contained inconsistencies or missing elements and are not included in Table 2.