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
Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
---|---|---|---|
General Pharmaceutical Services statistics (NHS Business Services Authority) | England | Assessment | October 2020 - March 2021 |
NHS Education for Scotland statistics (NHS Education for Scotland) | Scotland | Compliance Check | October 2020 - March 2021 |
Cancer Survival statistics (Public Health England) | England | Compliance Check | October 2020 - March 2021 |
Published Correspondence – Health and Social Care domain
Published Publications – Health and Social Care domain
Correspondence
Scott Heald response to Ed Humpherson: Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report
14 January 2021
Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Ed Humpherson to Scott Heald: Presentation of findings from the Discharges from NHSScotland hospitals to care homes report
14 January 2021
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Scott Heald, Public Health Scotland
Ed Humpherson to Iain Bell: Communicating models and methods to users of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey
22 December 2020
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Iain Bell, Office for National Statistics
Ed Humpherson to Professor Roger Halliday: Proportion of care homes in Scotland allowing and enabling indoor visiting
21 December 2020
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Professor Roger Halliday, Scottish Government
Mark Pont to Clare Griffiths: Statistics on Cancer Survival in England
17 December 2020
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Clare Griffiths, Public Health England
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
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