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 Anna Price, Caroline Jones, Sarah Whitehead, Vicky Stone and Effie Roberts for more information.
Planned Work
Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
---|---|---|---|
General Pharmaceutical Services statistics (NHS Business Services Authority) | England | Assessment | March 2021 – September 2021 |
NHS Education for Scotland statistics (NHS Education for Scotland) | Scotland | Compliance Check | October 2020 - March 2021 |
Mental Health Statistics in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | Systemic Review | November 2020 - July 2021 |
Published Correspondence – Health and Social Care domain
Publications – Health and Social Care domain
Correspondence
Ed Humpherson to Lucy Vickers: Weekly statistics for rapid asymptomatic testing in England
8 April 2021
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Lucy Vickers, Department of Health and Social Care
Ed Humpherson to Mark Svenson: Review of statistics on COVID-19 vaccinations published by NHS England
1 April 2021
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Mark Svenson, NHS England
Ed Humpherson response to Professor Sheila Bird: Transparency around asymptomatic testing in secondary schools
31 March 2021
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Professor Sheila Bird to Sir David Norgrove: Monitored Lateral Flow Tests (trice during 8-19 March 2021) for asymptomatic secondary pupils on their return to school
31 March 2021
to Sir David Norgrove, UK Statistics Authority
Response from Iain Bell to Ed Humpherson: COVID-19 Infection Survey Statistics
22 March 2021
Iain Bell, Office for National Statistics to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Publications
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/Monitoring Reviews
Adult Social Care Statistics: Summary Report for Great Britain
24 April 2020
Published in: Systemic/Monitoring Reviews
Adult Social Care Statistics in Scotland
20 February 2020
Published in: Systemic/Monitoring Reviews
Report on Adult Social Care statistics in England
16 January 2020
Published in: Systemic/Monitoring Reviews
News & Events
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
Data and Statistics on COVID-19 impacts on the Care sector
4 June 2020
COVID-19 surveillance and registered deaths data review
21 April 2020
Statement from the Office for Statistics Regulation – COVID-19 Update
3 April 2020
The Office for Statistics Regulation calls for better adult social care data for England to understand the experience of individuals getting social care
16 January 2020