Health

OSR’s work on health-related statistics covers areas such as physical and mental health, healthcare services and public health outcomes. Here you’ll also find our work related to statistics on NHS performance and workforce, disease prevalence, births, mortality and life expectancy.

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Mental health statistics across the UK: What we know so far and what’s next

OSR Regulator for our Health domain, Sarah looks at mental health statistics across the UK, with OSR's findings so far…

Demand on the NHS is a poor proxy for understanding the UK’s health

In this blog, Ed Humpherson discusses that while NHS performance statistics are important, they are a poor proxy for the…

The 6th Winner of the Statistical Excellence Award for Trustworthiness, Quality and Value is Announced

We are proud to announce that the 2025 Statistical Excellence Award for Trustworthiness, Quality and Value is awarded to Mental…

Latest publications on Health

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Compliance review of Abortion statistics for England and Wales

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NHS England’s Referral to Treatment RTT

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Compliance review of inpatient, day case and outpatient stage of treatment waiting times produced by Public Health Scotland 

   

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Review of mental health statistics in Wales

Latest correspondence on Health

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Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald – Update on temporary suspensions of accreditation: Scottish Health Costs, breast cancer screening statistics, cervical cancer screening statistics, and Learning Disability Statistics Scotland 

Dear Scott, Update on temporary suspensions of accreditation: Scottish Health Costs, breast cancer screening statistics, cervical cancer screening statistics, and Learning Disability Statistics Scotland Thank you for your letter of 24 August requesting the cancellation of accreditation for the above-named…

Scott Heald to Ed Humpherson: Update on temporary suspensions of accreditation: Scottish Health Costs, breast cancer screening statistics, cervical cancer screening statistics, and Learning Disability Statistics Scotland 

Dear Ed, Update on temporary suspensions of accreditation: Scottish Health Costs, breast cancer screening statistics, cervical cancer screening statistics, and Learning Disability Statistics Scotland OSR has previously agreed to the temporary suspension of accredited official statistics status for the three…

Rob Kent-Smith to Andrea Prophet: Compliance review of abortion statistics for England and Wales  

Dear Andrea,  We have completed a compliance review of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s abortion statistics for England and Wales against the standards of the Code of Practice for Statistics. The review considered whether these statistics continue to meet the standards of Trustworthiness, Quality and…

Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Chris Roebuck: Compliance review of NHS England’s Referral to Treatment (RTT) statistics

Dear Chris, Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Chris Roebuck: Compliance review of NHS England’s Referral to Treatment (RTT) statistics We have completed a compliance review of NHS England’s Referral to Treatment (RTT) statistics against the standards of the Code of Practice for…