Dear Colleagues Statistics on COVID-19 vaccinations Transparent statistics about COVID-19 vaccinations are important to support delivery of the vaccination programme and understanding of the pandemic. These statistics are also subject to high levels of public interest. It is testament to the hard work of you and your colleagues that such detailed and timely statistics are […]
Dear Clare Statistics on Cancer Survival in England As you are aware, we recently completed our compliance check of Public Health England’s (PHE) statistics on Cancer Survival in England against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cessation of much non-urgent NHS treatment and care, which could have consequences for […]
Dear Mr Brodie Official Statistics: National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports I am writing about delays to the release of statistics published by Public Health England (PHE). Most recently, on 8 October the National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports, which are classified as official statistics, were delayed from 2pm until 5pm. PHE make use of […]
Dear Duncan PUBLICATION OF DATA USED BY MINISTERS I am writing to welcome the publication of sero-surveillance data by Public Health England. The background is that at the daily media briefing on 21 May, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care quoted unsourced figures for the percentage of people in London and nationally with COVID-19 […]
Dear Iain ASSESSMENT OF CANCER SURVIVAL STATISTICS Thank you for inviting us to assess ONS’s experimental cancer survival statistics (adult cancer survival by stage of diagnosis and cancer survival for children) against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have completed the first phase of the assessment and have today published our Assessment Report. I […]