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This monthly knowledge update brings together information, resources and official statistics on health and care in England. For further queries or to propose a publication to include in a future knowledge update contact gss.health@ons.gov.uk.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, this newsletter now includes official statistics on coronavirus (COVID-19). A guide and links on where to find statistics published by different constituent countries of the UK on COVID-19 deaths and infection rates is available on the Office for National Statistics website. Daily COVID-19 updates on cases, deaths, testing and healthcare are available on the interactive dashboard.
Coronavirus related releases
A national influenza and COVID-19 report by Public Health England, monitoring COVID-19 activity, seasonal flu and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.
Experimental statistics by Department of Health and Social Care from the NHS Test and Trace service and related documents.
Office for National Statistics provides updated estimates of mortality involving Coronavirus (COVID-19) by ethnic group, religious group and disability status. This report investigates additional explanatory power of hospital-based co-morbidity on ethnic background contrasts in mortality involving COVID-19.
Analysis by the Office for National Statistics of the characteristics of people who died from the coronavirus (COVID-19), compared with people who died from influenza (flu) and pneumonia.
This link provides the latest weekly report by Department of Health and Social Care of personal protective equipment (PPE) items distributed for use by health and social care services in England.
Summary statistics by Ministry of Defence on the number of defence personnel who have had a COVID-19 test; and for the UK Armed Forces, the number of positive cases of COVID-19.
Provisional figures on deaths in private homes in England and Wales registered from 28 December 2019 to 11 September 2020. The report considers both deaths involving COVID-19 and deaths not involving COVID-19.
Estimates for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This survey is being delivered by Office for National Statistics in partnership with University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Public Health England and Wellcome Trust.The comparison of methods used in COVID-19 Infection Survey and NHS Test and Trace is provided in a separate publication.
Official statistics release providing monthly data of COVID-19 in HM Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales.
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Release highlights
There were 124.9 million outpatient appointments in England in 2019-20, a 1.3% increase from previous year (1.6 million appointments more). The number of outpatient attendances in 2019-20 was 96.4 million which is the same as in previous year and 59.1% higher than 10 years ago.
The number of appointments where patients ‘Did not attend’ (7.7 million) is less than Hospital or Patient cancelations, 9.4 million and 10.9 million respectively. Between 2009-10 and 2019-20 'Did not attend’s have increased by 15.0% whereas Hospital and Patient Cancellations have increased by 124.0% and 92.7% respectively. The number of hospital cancellations has increased by 12.3% in 2019-20 compared to 8.4% increase in previous year.
NHS Digital
Annual
England, NHS hospitals, Region
There have been 4,393 deaths related to drug poisoning registered in 2019 in England and Wales (76.7 deaths per million people), 34 more deaths than in 2018. Drug poisoning accounts for less than 1.0% of the total number of deaths from all causes registered in 2019.
Out of all drug poisoning deaths registered in 2019, males accounted for 2,968 death (104.7 deaths per million), while females accounted for 1,425 deaths (49.1 deaths per million). The age at which people die of drug poisoning has increased over time with people aged between 40 and 49 having the highest age-specific drug misuse rate in 2019.
Around two thirds of drug related deaths were caused by drug misuse (50.4 deaths per million people). The female rate of drug misuse has steadily been increasing for several years and has now reached a new high of 27.7 deaths per million in 2019, up from 27.4 deaths per million in 2018.
Office for National Statistics
Annual
England, Region, Local Authority
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This is the first in a series of follow up reports to the Mental Health and Young People Survey (MHCYP) 2017, exploring the mental health of children and young people in July 2020, during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and changes since 2017.
The rates of possible mental health disorders among boys and girls have increased from one in nine (10.8%) in 2017 to one in six in 2020 (16.0%). The increase in probable mental health disorders was apparent across all age groups since 2017.
In 2020, amongst 17 to 22 year olds, 20.0% were identified as having a probable mental disorder; a clear gender difference of 27.2% of young women and 13.3% of young men reporting having probable mental health disorders. Young people aged 17 to 22 years with a probable mental disorder were also more likely to report sleep problems (69.6%) than those aged 11 to 16 (50.5%) and 5 to 10 (52.5%).
In 2020, children (aged 5 to 16 years) with a probable mental disorder were more likely to be living in a family who reported problems with family functioning (28.3%), compared to children who were unlikely to have a mental disorder (11.7%). About six in ten (62.6%) children aged 5 to 16 years with a probable mental disorder had regular support from their school or college, compared with 76.4% of children unlikely to have a mental disorder.
During the pandemic period, children and young people with a probable mental disorder were more likely to say that lockdown had made their life worse (54.1% of 11 to 16 year olds, and 59.0% of 17 to 22 year olds), than those unlikely to have a mental disorder (39.2% and 37.3% respectively). Girls aged 11 to 22 years old, were more likely than boys to be anxious about the COVID-19, 13.4 and 11.3 on the Pandemic Anxiety Scale (PAS).
NHS Digital
Longitudinal follow up study
England, Region
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Upcoming releases
Annual summary of HIV diagnoses, late diagnoses and numbers accessing HIV care: data from the HIV and AIDS reporting system.
Release date: 3 November 2020
The Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) examines indicators that help us understand trends in public health. The data are presented in an interactive tool that allows users to view them in a user-friendly format.
Release date: 3 November 2020
During the first wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic period (March 2020 to present) there have been a variety of changes to the processes in which deaths are certified and registered under the Coronavirus Act 2020. Office for National Statistics describes what these changes are and how they may have affected the quality of death registration data.
Release date: 5 November 2020
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Things to note
This strategy summarises the core actions required to take to bridge the gaps for communities fairing worse than others in mental health services. It is also an important element of the overall NHS plans to accelerate action to address health inequalities in the next stage of responding to COVID-19.
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looks at the quality of care over the past year. This includes the period before the full impact of COVID-19 began to be felt and CQC’s routine inspections were suspended as a result of the pandemic.
Blog on the updated features of the coronavirus dashboard provided by Public Health England.
The Mortality Analysis team in Office for National Statistics are improving the datasets they provide with publications. In the August edition of Monthly Mortality Analysis, they have published some of the data tables in a machine-readable CSV format and are looking for user feedback. In the future, the team plan to include data from all tables in this layout (in addition to the traditional-style datasets), if users would find this helpful.
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Useful links
Interactive tool which compiles official statistics relating to health and care in England, into one location.
This tool compiles official statistics relating to adult social care across the four nations: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into one location.
More information on health and care statistics is available on the Government Statistical Service (GSS) website.
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