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 improve statistics about performance, by working with new official statistics producers to make sure that the statistics produced on waiting times, workforce and mental health are timely and meet user needs.
We will champion data sharing and the joining-up of data on health and social care with data on other aspects of people’s lives, including crime, justice, education, employment and welfare, to maximise the value of data. We will also continue to contribute to relevant parliamentary enquiries and follow these up with relevant engagement.
Contact our regulators for this domain via regulation@statistics.gov.uk
Planned Work
| Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health statistics Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | Systemic Review: Phase 2 | Continuing from 2022/23 |
| Adult Social Care Workforce statistics | England | Assessment | In progress |
| Mental health statistics in Wales | Wales | Engagement | In progress |
| Health and Care inequalities statistics | UK | Engagement | In progress |
| NHS Scotland workforce statistics | Scotland | Assessment | Not yet started |
Published Correspondence – Health and Social Care domain
Publications – Health and Social Care domain
Correspondence
-
Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Temporary Suspension of the accredited official statistics status of Cervical Cancer Screening Statistics
28 May 2025
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland
-
Scott Heald to Ed Humpherson: Temporary suspension of accredited official statistics status of cervical cancer screening statistics
28 May 2025
Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
-
Scott Heald to Ed Humpherson: 18 Weeks Referral to Treatment Publication Pause
18 March 2025
Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
-
Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Re: 18 Weeks Referral to Treatment Publication Pause
18 March 2025
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland
-
Ed Humpherson to Oonagh Smyth: Assessment of Skills for Care’s statistics about the workforce employed by adult social services departments in England
12 February 2025
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Oonagh Smyth, Skills for Care
Publications
-
Statistics on Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom
25 February 2025
Published in: Think Piece
-
Statistics about the workforce employed by adult social services departments in England
27 November 2024
Published in: Assessment Report
-
Election 2024: What to look out for
7 June 2024
Published in: Guidance
-
Review of mental health statistics in England: Update December 2023
12 December 2023
Published in: Reviews
-
Assessment of Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland
27 July 2023
Published in: Assessment Report
-
OSR’s approach to quality assessing the Covid Infection Survey
18 May 2023
Published in: External report
-
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
News & Events
-
OSR updates on Mental Health Statistics Review in England
12 December 2023
-
OSR publishes review of excess deaths reporting
13 February 2023
-
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
-
OSR asks DHSC to work with other departments to answer questions on Test and Trace
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