Health | National Statistical

Celebrating 75 years of the NHS and a history of ONS collaboration

Jonny Tinsley
July 5, 2023

Categories: Data, Health, Integrated Data Service, ONS, Wellbeing

Health data is a key part of the ONS’ work and an important part of this is our use of NHS data, which allows us to build an increasingly insightful understanding of the nation’s health. As the NHS marks its 75th anniversary, Jonny Tinsley looks at this long-standing relationship of NHS data linkage and discusses future work in this crucial area.

Listening to young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Emma Jones & Amber Jordan
June 19, 2023

Categories: Disability, Health, Inclusion, ONS, Population, Wellbeing

Today (19 June 2023) is the start of Learning Disability Week. This annual event, organised by Mencap, aims to educate, spread awareness, and increase understanding of learning disabilities. It is all about making sure the world hears what life is like if you have a learning disability. Here Amber Jordan and Emma Jones from the ONS’s Centre for Equalities and Inclusion explain some of the work the ONS has been doing, looking at the educational experiences of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The Health Index 2021 – Taking a deep dive into the nation’s health

Greg Ceely
June 9, 2023

Categories: Health, ONS, Population, Wellbeing

What are the trends in health where you live? Are factors such as mental health and economic and working conditions improving? And what is the national picture telling us about health? The ONS’ Health Index for England shines a light on these questions. Greg Ceely discusses the value of this rich dataset and looks ahead to its next publication.

Disability: When the numbers alone are simply not enough 

Statistically Speaking
April 3, 2023

Categories: Census, Disability, Health, Public Policy, Wellbeing

The most recent estimates suggest one in five people in the UK are disabled. But to really understand the nature of those disabilities and the needs of people reporting them we need to do a lot more work.

In this episode of Statistically Speaking we look at what’s being done to gain insight into the lives of disabled children and adults and provide high quality qualitative data that reflects the day-to-day lives of all people in our society.

New ways to access Census 2021 data

Jen Woolford
March 28, 2023

Categories: Census, Health, migration, ONS, Population

Crowds of people walking through the streets of London

At the Office for National Statistics, we want to give you the power to find and compare all the combinations of data you want from Census 2021. We have now released billions of statistics from the information you gave us in response to the Census. Here Jen Woolford explains how ‘Create a custom dataset’ is a unique innovation for official statistics and how it is just one of the products coming this year to help you find the data you want.