NHS ViewPoint

NHS ViewPoint

• NHS ViewPoint is an intelligence tool that can help you understand your health and care system and identify where delivery and outcome improvements can potentially be made. Includes Population Health and Population Demographics reports. See the demo videos on the Future|NHS page [registration required]. 
• NHS Viewpoint launched in April 2020 and replaced the National Performance and Population Health Dashboard and is located in the NHS Insights Platform.

LG Inform Plus

LG Inform Plus https://reports.esd.org.uk/

• The latest population data from LGA including demographics, health and wellbeing and ethnicity by Local Authority (down to ward level).

A chronological map of 308 physical and mental health conditions in the NHS

A chronological map of 308 physical and mental health conditions from 4 million individuals in the English National Health Service
Lancet Digital Health 2019; 1: e63–77, 1 June 2019

• This research aims to understand which sections of the population are susceptible to which health conditions and at which ages. It presents a lifecourse map of human health, charting the 50 most common conditions in each decade of life, and the median age at diagnosis for 308 conditions by sex and ethnicity. The results illustrate the varying dominance of different conditions through the passage of life.
•  Supplementary files include data tables of prevalence by age band, sex, and ethnicity across primary-care and secondary-care records in England.

Overview of the UK population: November 2018

Overview of the UK population: November 2018
ONS 1 November 2018

• A compilation of points from a range of statistical bulletins to give an overview of the UK population: how it’s changed, why it's changed and how it's projected to change in the future.

Changes in health in the countries of the UK

Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
The Lancet 24 October 2018 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32207-4

• This research analysed the association between burden of disease and socioeconomic deprivation using the Index of Multiple Deprivation across the UK.
• Read the response from PHE: How local Global Burden of Disease data can help shift the focus for the NHS

Local authority area data profiles for people aged over 65yrs

Local authority area data profiles
CQC September 2018

• CQC have drawn together a range of national data to build a profile of the care pathway for people aged 65 or over in every local health and care system. The individual reports provide insight into the journey through health and social care for older people who use services - and could identify where there are gaps which mean that people experience fragmented or poor care, allowing comparison with similar local authority areas and against national performance.
• See related: Beyond barriers: how older people move between health and care in England

Baby Boomers: Fit for the Future

On the State of the Public’s Health: Baby Boomers: Fit for the Future
Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2015
PHE 30 December 2016

• An examination of the health of those people who are currently circa 50-70 years of age; a generation often called the ‘Baby Boomers’including: Demography, Health and employment, Physical health, Lifestyle factors, Screening and immunisation, Mental health and Sexual health.

Support for GP Practices serving atypical populations

Guidance Note: GP Practices serving Atypical Populations
NHS England December 2016

• New guidance for commissioners of atypical practices ie those that are demographically different, with workload challenges that are not always recognised in the practice’s existing contract/s or its funding allocation
• This document outlines challenges faced by atypical practices and offers examples that may help articulate and/or address these pressures. 

Framework for improving older people's care from the Kings Fund

Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population
Kings Fund, 6th March 2014

• "Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people, who are most likely to suffer problems with co-ordination of care and delays in transitions between services."
• This report sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components as follows: 
• Healthy, active ageing and supporting independence 
• Living well with simple or stable long-term conditions 
• Living well with complex co-morbidities, dementia and frailty 
• Rapid support close to home in times of crisis 
• Good acute hospital care when needed 
• Good discharge planning and post-discharge support 
• Good rehabilitation and re-ablement after acute illness or injury 
• High-quality nursing and residential care for those who need it 
• Choice, control and support towards the end of life 

How do we look after the increasing elderly population? suggestions from Deloitte

Better care for frail older people: Working differently to improve care
Deloitte Centre of Health Solutions, 2014

• A discussion of the challenges in caring for the increasing numbers of frail older people suggests that improvements are needed on three fronts: physical and mental healthcare, social care and place of care.
• The report covers four key themes: the extent and impact of changing demographics, the barriers to ensuring health and social care is fit for purpose, new approaches and models of care, the improvements needed in each place of care and suggests several solutions to help tackle the challenges in caring for frail older people
• The report includes key facts on figures around the elderly population in Britain.