Health Data and Statistics
Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor diseases, see the impact of policy changes and assess the quality and safety of health care.
New OHE Guide to UK Health Statistics
2 August 2011
Just released is the new OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics, which provides both reliable up-to-date statistics and a basic guide to finding…
OHE Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics
7 January 2011
Please note: an updated version of this publication is available here. This publication provides both up-to-date statistics and a guide to finding and using health statistics…
Compendium of Health Statistics
1 January 2009
The annual OHE Compendium of Health Statistics is the one-stop statistical information source on population and health trends in the UK, and the changing finances and…
Sixty Years of the NHS: Changes in Demographics, Expenditure, Workforce and Family Services
1 September 2008
This series of articles celebrates the 60th anniversary of the UK National Health service (NHS). The series shows how certain areas associated with health have changed…
To Publish or Not: Experience and Evidence About Publishing Hospital Outcomes Data
1 February 2004
Since the mid-1980s, the publication of hospital outcomes data has become increasingly popular. Canada and the US operate performance reporting systems, with similar initiatives planned in…
Improving Population Health in Industrialised Nations
1 September 2000
Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 6 December 1999: ‘The Causes of Improved Population Health in Industrialised Nations: How will the 21st century…
The Impact of Behavioural and Biomedical Advance on Health Trends over the Next 25 Years
11 January 1994
Recent decades have seen a significant improvement in the health status of citizens in Western Europe and the USA. This is evident from death rate statistics…
A Doctor Looks at Health Economics
1 March 1994
Inequality in health is back on the political agenda in the UK. Three factors have made inequality an issue – firstly, concern that the internal market…
Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing
1 January 1984
In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects…