Data Available from the London Health Observatory

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Data Available from the London Health Observatory

• Nick Coyle
• www.lho.org.uk

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Contents

• What is the LHO?
• Work within APHO
• LHO work on a national level
• LHO work for London
• Other information available from LHO

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What is the LHO?

• One of twelve public health observatories across
  the UK and Ireland
• Part of umbrella organisation called APHO
  (Association of Public Health Observatories).
• Provide information to health practitioners,
  policy makers and researchers to assist with
  commissioning and policy decisions.
• LHO takes lead role among APHO in ethnicity,
  tobacco and health inequalities.

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Work within APHO

• LHO (and every other PHO) part of APHO
• APHO commissioned by DH to produce health
  profiles.
• Provide a snapshot of health for each local
  council in England using key health indicators.
• Available from www.healthprofiles.info

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What is contained within the health profiles?
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What is contained within the health profiles?
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LHO national work

• LHO also undertakes work on a national level.
• For example the Local Basket of Indicators
  (LBOI).
• Contains around 60 indicators on health and
  health status, health outcomes and the
  determinants of health.
• E.g. indicators on employment, poverty and
  deprivation, crime and accidents and injuries.
• For more info see LHO website.
• Can download data from excel or from webtool.

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LHO London work

• LHO undertakes work on a regional basis as well.
• Example is the Health Needs Assessment (HNA)
  toolkit.
• Provides a single point of access to the core
  Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) data-set
• Available at http//hna.csl.nhs.uk

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HNA Outputs 1
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HNA Outputs 2
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HNA Outputs 3
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What else is available from LHO?

• Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) including
  standard outputs.
• Ward level SMRs and Life Expectancy
• Public Health Performance Tool
• Practice Profiles
• Health Inequalities Intervention Tool
• Reports incl. recent publications on NCMP data
  and access to Londons stop smoking services.
• GLA population projections (incl ward level and
  ethnic).
• Much more!

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Useful links

• Recommended to explore website!
• Enquiry service lho.enquiries_at_csl.nhs.uk
• LHO website www.lho.org.uk
• APHO website www.apho.org.uk
• CSL website www.csl.nhs.uk