What's New in Tools

Service Snapshot - Vaccination and Immunisation

Use the Service Snapshot vaccination and immunisation to look at rates, trends and risk factors in a PCT area.

How healthy are children and young people in your area?

Use the new Local Authority Child Health Profiles 2012 to find out.

Self Assessment Tool- Acute Paediatric Services

Use the latest self assessment tool to assess progress against national standards for acute children's services. Covers Paediatric Surgery and Anaesthesia and Care of the Acutely Unwell Child.

Self Assessment Tool- Disability

Use the latest self assessment tool to assess progress against national standards for services supporting disabled children.

Tools and Data Directory

The Tools and Data Directory helps you find and understand when to use the wide range of tools and data collections currently available. It includes:

  • Commissioning tools which are designed to support planning and decision making to improve children's, young people's and maternity services.

  • Data collections and statistics such as the Infant Feeding Survey and the Health Poverty Index which include data relating to children’s, young people’s and maternal health.
If you are looking for specific child and maternal health indicators you may want to use the ChiMat Data Atlas which brings together relevant indicators from many of these sources into one, easy-to-use hub.

Search over 80 commissioning tools including toolkits, guides, checklists and data analysis tools.

Find out which tool supports which stage of the commissioning cycle.

Includes information about how the tool has been used and how it supports Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP).
Links you directly to the tool.

Find out about the major health and well-being data collections and statistics and where to access them.

Describes each data collection including who provides it, what age groups and geography it covers and how to access it.

Links you directly to the data.

You may also be interested in the ChiMat Data Atlas which brings together key child and maternal health indicators into one hub.


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