
Department of Health
The Department of Health (DH) is the Ministerial Department of Government responsible for government policy on health and social care matters. It oversees the English National Health Service (NHS).
The Department of Health develops policies and guidelines to improve the quality of care and to meet patient expectations.
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Immunisation Rates for Children at 1st, 2nd and 5th Birthdays
Department of HealthCentre for Infections (CfI) for information on childhood immunisation uptake at ages 1, 2 and 5 collected through the Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER). Long-term trends for MMR immunisations in London and England are available, back to 1988/89. It is not possible to easily display the long term trends for all regions since the definitions and boundaries of the other... - Updated a year ago
Legal Abortion Rates
Department of HealthThe annual Abortion Statistics for England and Wales: 2022 has been provisionally delayed from 22 June 2023 until May 2024. This is due to a backlog in the HSA4 form processing, which the publication is based on. Legal abortions: rates by Primary Care Organisation by age. Rates per 1,000 in age group. Age not stated have been distributed pro-rata across age... - Updated 7 years ago
Smoking Indicators, Borough
Department of HealthThis dataset contains three smoking related indicators. Rates of self reported four-week smoking quitters Smoking quit rates per 100,000 available from the HNA. - These quarterly reports present provisional results from the monitoring of the NHS Stop Smoking Services (NHS SSS) in England. This report includes information on the number of people setting a quit date and the number who successfully quit at the... - Updated 9 years ago
Number of Registered Blind and Partially Sighted People by Age Group, Borough
Department of HealthThis data shows the number of people registered with Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England as being blind and partially sighted by age, for years ending 31 March. Age groups are: 0-4, 5-17, 18-49, 50-64, 65-74, 75 and over. A decision was made to bring the most recent collection forward by a year for collection in 2008, due to... - Updated 9 years ago
Number of Registered Blind and Partially Sighted People with an Additional Disability by Category, Borough
Department of HealthThis Data shows the number of people registered with Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England as being blind and partially sighted with an additional disability by category of disability, for years ending 31 March. Categories include: Mental illness only, learning disabilities only, physical disabilities only, deaf without speech, deaf with speech, hard of hearing, mental illness and... - Updated 10 years ago
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, Region
Department of HealthAge-standardised proportion of adults (16+) who met the recommended guidelines of consuming five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day by gender. To help reduce the risk of deaths from chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer. The Five-a-day programme was introduced to increase fruit and vegetable consumption within the general population. Its central message is that... - Created 11 years ago
myhealthlondon Dementia Indicators
Department of HealthA set of data on aspects of dementia published on the myhealthlondon website. DEM0001 - Numbers of people with a diagnosis DEM0002 - Diagnosis rates DEM0003 - Care reviews for GP patients DEM0004 - Dementia today DEM0005 - Spend on anti-dementia drugs DEM0006 - Waiting to be tested by Memory Clinics DEM0007 - Waiting for... - Updated 11 years ago
Number of People Registered as Deaf or Hard of Hearing by Age Group, Borough
Department of HealthThis data shows the number of people registered with Councils with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSRs) as being deaf or hard of hearing by age group. Age groups are: 0-17, 18-64, 65-74, 75 and over. Numbers are rounded to nearest five. The data are compiled from the triennial return SSDA 910 which is submitted to The Information Centre (The IC). People who are registered as... - Updated 12 years ago
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours
Department of HealthRange of modelled indicators of health lifestyle choices. These estimates must be used with caution. They will almost certainly not mirror precisely any available measures from local studies or surveys (although research by NatCen and others have shown that they tend to be related). 1) Current smoking among adults (aged 16 or over). Current smokers were defined in the HSfE if the...