Data Directory: Young People
Community Health Profiles
Health Profiles provide a snapshot of health for each local council in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and over time. Indicators for maternity and child health include: Children in poverty; GCSE achievement; Smoking in pregnancy; Breast feeding initiation; Physically active children; Obese children; Children's tooth decay; Teenage pregnancy; Under-15s "not in good health" and Infant deaths.
Information provided by: Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) from routine sources
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: All local authorities in England, except for the City of London and the Isles of Scilly
Age group covered: All ages
Most recent date/year: 2007/2008 Last updated: 01-Jun-2008 00:00:00
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Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators
Production of wide ranging comparative health outcome indicators using available routine data in the form of the Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators.
Information provided by: National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) for the Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No (though some data is NHS access only)
Geographical areas covered: England / Region / SHAs / PCTs / LAs / City
Age group covered: All ages
Most recent date/year: Various Last updated: 01-Jun-2008 00:00:00
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Contraception and Sexual Health
Presents the results of the module of questions on contraception and sexual health included on the National Statistics Omnibus Survey.
Contains statistics regarding contraceptive use among women aged under 50; women ‘at risk’ of pregnancy; sterilisations and vasectomies; sexual behaviour and condom use; and knowledge of sexually transmitted infections.
Information provided by: Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: National
Age group covered: Women aged 16-49; men aged 16-49
Most recent date/year: 2007/08
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General Household Survey (GHS)
The General Household Survey (GHS) is a multi-purpose continuous survey which collects information from people living in private households in Great Britain. The survey started in 1971 and has been carried out almost continuously since then. The main aim of the survey is to collect data on a range of core topics, comprising: household and family information; housing tenure and household accommodation; consumer durables including vehicle ownership; employment; education; health and use of health services; smoking and drinking; family information including marriage, cohabitation and fertility; income; demographic information about household members including migration.
Information provided by: Office for National Statistics
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: Region / England / Great Britain
Age group covered: Households / Families
Most recent date/year: 2007 Last updated: 01-Nov-2006 00:00:00
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Health Poverty Index (HPI)
The Health Poverty Index (HPI) is a web-based tool which allows groups, differentiated by geography and cultural identity, to be contrasted in terms of their 'health poverty' which is their present state of health and future health potential. The HPI tool provides a single visual summary of a large range of indicators which may provide some bearing on future health in an area. The indicators are presented under three main headings - root causes, intervening factors and situation of health - which are then sub-divided based on the geographical scale at which they tend to operate which are regional, local, individual.
Information provided by: Information provided by: Hospital Episode Statistics; Office of National Statistics; Dept for Children, Schools & Families; National Pupil Database; Department for Work & Pensions; Value Office Agency; Dept of Communities & Local Government; Dept of Health; Sport England; Commission for Health Improvement; Prescription Pricing Authority; Health Survey for England; National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory; English House Condition Survey.
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: Local Authority Districts / The Spearhead Group of Local Authorities / ONS subgroup/group/super group area
Age group covered: All ages
Most recent date/year: 2008 Last updated: 01-Oct-2006 00:00:00
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Health Survey for England
The Health Survey for England is a series of annual surveys designed to measure health and health related behaviours in adults and children in England. It has a series of core elements that are included every year and special topics that are included in selected years.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England
Age group covered: All Ages
Most recent date/year: 2007 Last updated: 01-Jan-2008 00:00:00
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Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
The Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Dataset includes data on hospital admissions in England broken down by reason for admission. HES also contains details of all NHS outpatient appointments in England.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England / Government regions / SHAs / PCTs / Practices / Postcode
Age group covered: All ages
Most recent date/year: 2007/08
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iView ChiMat - Workforce
The Workforce data provides access to Strategic Health Authority, Primary Care Trust and Trust level data on NHS staff working in child and maternal health. It includes both the medical and non-medical workforce. iView ChiMat enables users to make selections, view comparisons, create tables, generate graphs and extract child and maternal health data.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: SHA / PCT / Trust/ England
Age group covered: All Ages
Most recent date/year: 2006/07
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Local Authority Indicator Tool
The Local Authority Indicator Tool helps identify priority areas' which are most crucial to delivering national priorities and targets across the Every Child Matters Framework. This includes data associated with the National Indicator Set which supports the 2011 Public Service Agreements. The information is available for each local authority in England, which enables comparison locally, regionally and nationally.
Information provided by: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Account/password required: Yes (LA or PCT access)
Geographical areas covered: LA
Age group covered: All ages
Most recent date/year: 2007/2008
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Ophthalmic Data
The objective of the General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) is to provide, through community opticians' practices, preventative and corrective eye care for children, people aged 60 and over, people on low incomes, and those suffering from or pre-disposed to eye disease. The statistics are derived from data provided by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England and Local Health Boards (LHBs) in Wales, which contract with ophthalmic practitioners to provide NHS sight tests and optical vouchers.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: PCTs / SHAs / England / Wales
Age group covered: Children (0-15 years) / Young People / Students (16-18 years)
Most recent date/year: April - September 2008 Last updated: 01-Mar-2008 00:00:00
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Sexual health balanced scorecard
The sexual health balanced scorecard website is designed to support sexual health and teenage pregnancy leads in decisions regarding where to target resources. provides a snapshot of sexual health for each Primary Care Trust in England. Interactive maps and charts enable comparisons to be made regionally and nationally across a range of indicators relating to teenage pregnancy, abortions, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and other relevant issues. This toolkit is supported as best practice by the Department of Health and the aim is to provide a key source of sexual health information for public health, commissioning and performance management colleagues at a local, regional and national level.
Information provided by: South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO)
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England / Regional / LAs / PCTs /
Age group covered:
Most recent date/year: Regularly updated
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Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People in England
A series of annual surveys designed to monitor smoking, drinking and drug use among secondary school pupils aged 11 to 15.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England
Age group covered: Children / Young People (11 - 15 year olds)
Most recent date/year: 2007/08 Last updated: 01-Aug-2007 00:00:00
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Social Services Expenditure
The Personal Social Services Expenditure return (PSSEX1) was first collected in 2000-01 by the Department of Health. Since 2004-05 this return has been the responsibility of the Information Centre for Health and Social Care. Data collected within the PSSEX1 has been used by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) to monitor the performance of Social Services across councils.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: LA / England
Age group covered: Children / Families
Most recent date/year: 2007/2008 Last updated: 01-Feb-2008 00:00:00
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Social Services Staffing
The Personal Social Services staff of Social Services Departments return (SSDS001) was first collected in 1993 by the Department of Health (DH). Since 2004-05 the return has been the responsibility of The Information Centre for Health and Social Care. The aim of the SSDS001 is to collect detailed information on all staff, whether full or part-time, directly employed by social services departments.
Information provided by: Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: LA / England
Age group covered: Children / Families
Most recent date/year: September 2008 Last updated: 01-Mar-2008 00:00:00
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Systems Model for Planning Age Appropriate Environments
The Systems Planning Model has been designed to help areas to be ready for the implementation of the duty to provide an ‘Age Appropriate Environment’.
The model is aimed at Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) commissioners, providers, planners and analysts. It enables you to devise and test plans to improve your services to meet the needs of under-18s with severe mental health problems.
Information provided by: National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE)
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England
Age group covered: Under 18's
Most recent date/year: October 2008
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Teenage Pregnancy Ward Level Interactive Mapping Tool
EMPHO has produced interactive maps for Ward level data showing whether the conception rate in each Ward is significantly different to the England rate. These maps use the data for the 3-year periods 2000-2002, 2001-2003, 2002-2004 and 2003-2005 and a map has been produced for each of the nine Government Office regions within England.
Information provided by: The Office of National Statistics and East Midlands Public Health Observatory (EMPHO)
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: Ward level
Age group covered: Under 18 year olds
Most recent date/year: 2003-2005
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Workforce: NHS staff numbers
Statistics on the numbers of staff in the NHS covering the areas that they work in, age and sex breakdown, and regional breakdowns.
Information provided by: NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Account/password required: No
Geographical areas covered: England (Medical to SHA / Non-medical national)
Age group covered: Not applicable
Most recent date/year: 2007 Last updated: 01-Mar-2008 00:00:00
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