ONS Centre for Health Analysis & Reporting

1. ONS Centre for Health Analysis & Reporting Presentation by Emma Gordon

2. “CHAR contributes to better health in the UK by producing accurate and reliable statistics and analysis on the health of the population. These outputs inform government policies, resource allocation and monitoring, contribute to scientific knowledge and increase public awareness about health and its determinants.”

3. CHAR teams Divisional director: Aileen Simkins • London CHAR: Sue Davies • Child health (Nirupa Dattani) • Cancer (Nicola Cooper) • Mortality team (Allan Baker) • Newport CHAR: Myer Glickman • Congenital anomalies (Vera Ruddock) • Disability & health measurement (Chris White) • Health inequalities (Brian Johnson) • UK & International health (Claire Collins) • Mortality (Emma Gordon)

4. Child health team Nirupa Dattani • Produced first release of infant mortality figures by ethnicity, England & Wales by linking ONS birth and infant deaths data to NHS numbers for babies records • Produce ‘unexplained infant deaths’ annual reports • Produce ‘conceptions’ data

5. Pre-term birth (<37 weeks) by ethnic group E&W 2005 % born preterm

6. Low birthweight (< 2,500g) by ethnic group E&W 2005 % low birthweight

7. Congenital anomalies team Vera Ruddock • Manages the congenital anomaly system • Historic system that needs a number of improvements • Currently carrying out a review of the best way to improve congenital anomaly statistics Vera will lead the relocation of child health work from London to Newport, in 2009

8. Areas covered by local congenital anomaly registers

9. Disabilities & health measurement team Chris White • Produce estimates of Health Life Expectancy and Disability-free Life expectancy • Developing standards for harmonising survey questions covering general health and chronic disability • Investigating the impact of changes to survey and question design on health expectancy indicators

10. Trend in LE, HLE and DFLE at birth: Males 1981 – 2004 Great Britain

11. Trend in proportion of LE spent in good or fairly good health: Great Britain 1981-2004

12. Health inequalities team Brian Johnson • Carry out analyses of mortality by National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) • Responsible for all occupational and NS-SEC mortality customer requests and Parliamentary Questions

13. Ratio in age-standardised mortality rates between routine occupations And higher managerial and professional occupations by cause of death, men aged 25-64, England and Wales, 2001-03 Source: White et al HSQ38

14. UK & International health team Claire Collins • Produces UK Health Statistics publication • Annual report on UK health to the OECD • Responsible for the ‘health’ chapter in Social Trends publication

15. Mortality team

16. What we are responsible for • Answering mortality parliamentary questions • Answering ad hoc customer queries, and supplying datasets • Reporting: • Sub-national life expectancy figures • Drug-related deaths • MRSA and C. difficile deaths • Excess Winter Mortality figures • Carrying out research on mortality data: • Premature mortality • Urban / rural mortality

17. Male life expectancy at birth for the UK, 2004-06

18. Male life expectancy at birth for London 2004-06

19. Deaths involving C. difficile, 2003-2007 8,324 6,480 3,757 2,238 1,804

20. Age-specific mortality rates for deaths involving C. difficile, 2003-2007 combined

21. Age-specific mortality rates for deaths involving MRSA, 2003-2007 combined

22. Thank you for listening… … any questions?