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.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a busy time for the Health and Social Care domain. We continue to respond at speed to user concerns, working with statistics producers to make sure that the statistics produced are timely and meet user needs.

Our priority for 2020/21 is to address data gaps. We will work to support statistics that serve public debate in light of the current pandemic. We will also continue to focus on mental health statistics and social care data transformation, so that they achieve the prominence of existing statistics about hospital performance.

We will continue to encourage access to data, seeking solutions to the problems that researchers experience when trying to access data from NHS Digital, and to support collaboration between statistics producers who are linking and analysing data about cost, outcomes and people’s lived experiences.

We will also champion 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. We will also continue to contribute to relevant parliamentary enquiries and follow these up with relevant engagement.

Contact our regulators for this domain Caroline Jones, Sarah Whitehead, Vicky Stone and Effie Roberts for more information.

Planned Work

Published Correspondence – Health and Social Care domain

Published Publications – Health and Social Care domain