Department of Health

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Statistical work areas

The main statistical work areas in the DH are healthcare, workforce,  public health, and social care. Follow these links to find data in these topics.

Statistical work area: public health

Find data on indicators of the nation's health, such as morbidity rates, smoking drinking and drug use, and abortion statistics.

Statistical work area: health care

Statistics on various healthcare topics; population figures, community care, dentistry, hospitals, mental health, NHS performance, ophthalmics, pharmacies and prescriptions, screening and prevention.

Statistical work area: social care

Personal social services statistics for adults and children. This section also presents statistics on social service performance.

Statistical work area: workforce

This section provides statistics on staff working across the main health and care areas. Included are doctors, nurses and other health professionals working in the NHS as well as those directly employed by local authority social services departments.

Statistical work area: expenditure

This section provides links to all up-to-date statistics relating to expenditure on the NHS, expenditure by health authorities and NHS trusts and local authority personal social services. There are also links to data from previous years.

Statistical work area: neighbourhood statistics

As part of the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy, a report of the Policy Action Team (PAT) 18 on Better Information identified 9 domains on which small area data should be available for Neighbourhood Statistics. The main domain for which the Information Centre for health and social care (IC)/Department of Health contributes is the Health and Care Domain, but we also input to the Access to Services Domain. The Neighbourhood Statistics Team work within the IC, on 13 different health-related topic areas. This site provides details of the work on Neighbourhood Statistics and the latest publications on the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics website.

 

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