Public health directory - information & intelligence

Websites and organisations specialising or providing data to support public health needs assessments and policy-making.  See also the Datasets and International directory pages for further links and listings by topic.

• Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO)  Overarching organisation representing the regional PHOs in the UK
• Audit Commission  Collating information by local authority
• Care Quality Commission  Amalgamation of old regulators including the Healthcare Commission and CSCI (Social Care Inspectorate) - includes patient survey findings
• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)  Includes benefits data
• Health & Safety Executive  Occupational health data
• HESonline  Provides Hospital Episode Statistic data
• The Information Centre A huge variety of NHS datasets
• National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD)  Compendium of PH statistics, including mortality and programme budgeting data.  Note the N3 (internal NHS) version has more detailed stats
• Nomis  Data on employment, qualifications and earnings
• Office of National Statistics  General Government-collected data, including the useful Neighbourhood statistics section

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