Health and Social Care
Our Health and Social Care domain oversees the regulation of statistics concerning the health of the UK population and health and social care services provided in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We will be looking to the statistics system to demonstrate how they meet current and future needs emerging from the pandemic, such as providing better data to understand the lessons learned and explore health inequalities. We continue to respond at speed to user concerns about data to support understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, working with statistics producers to make sure that the statistics produced are timely and meet user needs.
We will continue our focusĀ onĀ mental healthĀ statistics andĀ social care data transformation, so that they achieve the prominence of existing statistics about hospital care.
We will continue to encourage access to data, seeking solutions to the problems that researchers experience when trying to access data. We will alsoĀ champion the joining-up of data on health and social care with data on other aspects of peopleās lives, including crime, justice, education, employment and welfare.Ā We will also continue to contribute to relevant parliamentary enquiries and follow these up with relevant engagement.
Contact our regulators for this domainĀ Anna Price,Ā Caroline Jones,Ā Sarah Whitehead, and Nisha BuntingĀ for more information.
Planned Work
Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
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Workforce statistics (NHS Education Scotland) | Scotland | Assessment | Continuing from 2021/22 |
Deaths in the Care Sector (Office for National Statistics) | England and Wales | Assessment | Continuing from 2021/22 |
Waiting Times statistics (Public Health Scotland) | Scotland | Assessment | Not yet started |
Mental Health statistics Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | Systemic Review: Phase 2 | Continuing from 2021/22 |
Adult Social Care statistics Great Britain | Great Britain | Systemic Review: Phase 2 | Continuing from 2021/22 |
COVID Lessons Learned Review | United Kingdom | Systemic Review: Phase 2 | Continuing from 2021/22 |
England Mental Health Statistics Review - follow up | England | Systemic Review: Phase 2 | April-June 2022 |
Scotland Ambulance Service Performance statistics (Scotland Ambulance Service) | Scotland | Rapid Review | April-June 2022 |
COVID Infection Survey Review | United Kingdom | Review | July-Sept 2022 |
Health Index Compendium (Office for National Statistics) | England | Compliance Check | July-Sept 2022 |
Published Correspondence – Health and Social Care domain
Publications – Health and Social Care domain
Correspondence
Ed Humpherson to Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig and Scott McLachlan: ONS Deaths by Vaccination Status statistics
23 January 2023
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Response from Humza Yousaf to Sir Robert Chote
12 December 2022
Ed Humpherson to Tony Dent: Better Statistics CIC
25 November 2022
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Tony Dent, Better Statistics CIC
Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig and Scott McLachlan to Ed Humpherson: The ONS data on vaccine mortality is not fit for purpose
11 November 2022
to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Scott Heald to Ed Humpherson: NHS Inform waiting times
31 October 2022
Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Publications
Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Statistics on Deaths in the Care Sector
28 October 2022
Published in: Assessment Report
Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Statistics on the Wellbeing of Wales
28 September 2022
Published in: Assessment Report
Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Family Practitioner Services Statistics in Northern Ireland
11 May 2022
Published in: Assessment Report
Improving health and social care statistics: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
7 October 2021
Published in: OSR Insight Reports
Review of mental health statistics in Northern Ireland
7 September 2021
Published in: Systemic Reviews
Assessment Report: Statistics on General Pharmaceutical Services in England
22 July 2021
Published in: Assessment Report
Assessment Report: Statistics on Prescription Cost Analysis: England
5 November 2020
Published in: Assessment Report
Mental Health Statistics in England
17 September 2020
Published in: Systemic Reviews
Presenting estimates of R by government and allied bodies across the United Kingdom
9 June 2020
Published in:
Covid-19 daily dashboard – Department of Health, Northern Ireland
22 May 2020
Published in: Breach Report
News & Events
OSR statement on use of vaccination statistics
25 January 2023
OSR publishes further report looking at health and social care statistics beyond the pandemic
1 November 2022
Winner is announced for the Statistical Excellence in Trustworthiness, Quality and Value Award 2022
15 July 2022
OSR welcomes ONS blog on COVID-19 deaths: to say only 17,000 people have died from COVID-19 is highly misleading
26 January 2022
OSR calls for strong leadership, transparency, and investment in health and social care statistics after pandemic
7 October 2021
OSRĀ asks DHSC to work with other departments to answer questions onĀ TestĀ and TraceĀ Ā
4 August 2021
Statement: OSR calls for further progress on vaccination data in response to PACAC inquiry
10 February 2021
UK Data on Hospital Capacity and Occupancy
17 December 2020
Our Review of NHS Test and Trace statistics in England
15 July 2020
COVID-19 Local Area Data
1 July 2020