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The Role of the Yorkshire & Humber Public Health Observatory. Lorraine Oldridge Business/Project Lead. What PHOs were set up to do. Monitoring health and disease trends and highlighting areas for action; Identifying gaps in health information;
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The Role of the Yorkshire& Humber Public Health Observatory Lorraine Oldridge Business/Project Lead
What PHOs were set up to do • Monitoring health and disease trends and highlighting areas for action; • Identifying gaps in health information; • Advising on methods for health and health inequality impact assessments; • Drawing together information from different sources in new ways to improve health; • Carrying out projects to highlight particular health issues; • Evaluating progress by local agencies in improving health and cutting inequality; and • Looking ahead to give early warning of future public health problems “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Public Health Observatories “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Yorkshire & Humber region • 5.1 million people • 3 SHAs • 34 PCTs “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Yorkshire & Humber region • 5.1 million people • 3 SHAs • 34 PCTs • 22 LAs (inc. DCs, CCs and UAs) • 20 NHS Hospital Trusts • 2 Care Trusts “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Who Do We Serve? “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
The regional public health intelligence function • Public Health Observatories • Health Development Agency • Health Protection Agency • Cancer Registries YHPHO is an NHS organisation based on the University of York campus “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Organisational Chart Professor Brian Ferguson Director Jake Abbas Deputy Director / Senior Public Health Information Specialist Caroline Kier Health Impact Assessment Development Manager Lorraine Oldridge Business/Project Lead David Merrick PH Information Specialist (seconded 2 days from GOYH PH Team Ceri Wyborn Public Health Information Specialist James Nelson-Smith Public Health Information Specialist (HES) Paul Wilkinson Website Developer Lynne Chatterton Co-ordinator Marion Moss Public Health Information Analyst(HES) “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Work Programme 2004/5 • Internal Management of the YHPHO • Website development • Diabetes • Partnership Development • Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Safe Haven Role • Support to Primary Care Trusts • Health Scrutiny • Health Impact Assessment (HIA) • Capacity Building • Public Health Intelligence • Research “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Diabetes Prevalence Model • Project being led by YHPHO • Partners: • ScHARR, University of Sheffield (Trent model) • Brent Primary Care Trust (Brent model) • NCASP (register-based model) • Updating: • new Census data / health areas • ethnicity • obesity (BMI) • Dissemination: • Spreadsheet model available on website • Web-link: www.yhpho.org.uk “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Supporting PCTs and LSPs • Comparative data analysis • Health equity audit • Development of health inequalities indicators • Analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) • Development and support of Public Health Information Analysts networks • Support Directors of Public Health in production of Annual Reports • Develop links to Public Health Networks. “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
White Paper • “We will invest in and develop the PHOs and set up a Health Information and Intelligence Task Force to lead action to develop and implement a comprehensive public health information and intelligence strategy”. • Real-time public health information • Identify an agreed set of core data • Tackle weaknesses within existing data • Bringing together sources on information on health and wellbeing • Build on PHO regional public health indicators • Work with HPA • Use new sources, such as marketing information • Give guidance on data sharing, and on disclosure and confidentiality • Build on existing knowledge management systems “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
White Paper – YHPHO Support Locally • “real-time health surveillance” • “PHOs will support the development of skills for example HEA and HIA”. • “PHOs are a key contributor towards partnerships and networks” • “develop a standard set of local health information that can be linked to other local data sets for publication. PHOs will produce reports designed for local communities at local authority level which will support DsPH”. First reports in 2006 along with national report. • “Local communities … need clear, understandable and timely information about local needs and trends”. “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Success factors • Support to PCT DsPH / LSPs • National diabetes lead role • Web site - visibility / usefulness • Adding value to local / sub-regional networks • Effective networks of public health information specialists / analysts • Making a contribution beyond the NHS “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
Our Contact Details www.apho.org.uk www.yhpho.org.uk Alcuin Research and Resource Centre The University of York Heslington YORK YO10 5DD Telephone: 01904 724588 Email: yhpho-info@york.ac.uk “Promoting and delivering public health intelligence”
