Public Health Resources

Key PHI Resources

    Cambridgeshire County Council

    Peterborough City Council

    Please note that Cambridgeshire Insight contains lots of information on Peterborough (See Cambridgeshire County Council tab above).

    Public Health England

    Many of these resources cover local authority and CCG (NHS) data.

    CCG (NHS) specific intelligence resources

    Please note that many of the resource links above include CCG and NHS data.

    Other analytical and population health intelligence resources

    • NHS Digital home page – collected data and information resources from the umbrella body for information services in health and social care.
    • NHS Digital’s data and information page provides an online portal for NHS and other data in spreadsheet form, metadata (data about data) and some methodological information.
    • Office for National Statistics home page – the national producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
    • The King Fund – data and policy briefings from the King’s Fund independent charity who work to improve health and care in England.

    Library and knowledge management services

      • Local library services are provided by the North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust’s Library Service, based at Hinchingbrooke Hospital Education Centre and Laxton Library at Peterborough Hospital. Cambridgeshire County Council has a contract with the library to provide current awareness and literature/evidence search services and the Hinchinbrooke Library is also the local administrator for the NHS OpenAthens service.
        • Library skills training is available.
        • Local library services at Hinchingbrooke and Peterborough: contact by phone on 01480 416412 (H) and 01733 678081 (P) or by email at hch-tr.libraryteam@nhs.net (H) and nwangliaft.laxtonlibrary@nhs.net (P).
      • With an NHS OpenAthens login you can access the electronic resources purchased by NHS England, your NHS regional library network and by your local healthcare library. Click here for NHS OpenAthens account registration.
      • Public Health England (PHE) also provide knowledge services online and these can be found at https://phelibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/. A local authority support page is available here.
        • Public Health England’s Discovery Service is available here (sign-up account required). Discovery services enable searches across content and give access to full text where available. The discovery service allows local authority public health teams to search and access titles currently provided by PHE, along with the nationally procured core content journals and databases.
        • PHE Knowledge Services can also be contacted at libraries@phe.org.uk.
        • NHS staff can also access some journals free from Health Information Online.
        • The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) also provide evidence services.

     

    Public health intelligence and epidemiology learning resources

    • Public Health England (PHE) offer classroom based courses and have developed online support materials in partnership with Health Education England here.
    • You can find details of local PHE classroom based courses for commissioners and analysts on the PHE LKIS East Knowledge Hub page.
    • PHE have also developed a population health intelligence training prospectus and this can be found here.
    • Public health online textbook including statistics and epidemiology.
    • Specific public health practitioner and specialist learning for epidemiology, health information and statistical methods.

Area Profiles

Area-based profiles present data on a range of health topics.  They are often used to compare one area to another which can help to highlight inequalities and target action.

    Local Authority

    This section gives a link to Public Health England’s health profiles for upper and lower tier local authorities.  From 2019 these are now regularly updated both as HTML documents and on the Fingertips profile. We also provide a local summary, that will only be updated annually so please refer to Public Health England’s website too. There are also more extensive and detailed data at local authority level at our JSNA Core Dataset and Public Health Outcomes Framework pages.

    PHE Health Profiles 2019

    Public Health England’s Health Profiles give a snapshot of the overall health of each local authority in England. The profiles present a small set of some of the most important population health indicators that show how each area compares to the national average.  They are produced for use by elected Councillors, Directors of Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and to inform Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.

    Previously the the health profiles were published as annual snapshot PDF reports. From 2019, they are published as regularly updated online HTML reports.  Many of the indicators are now shared with the Public Health Outcomes Framework.

    This local briefing was produced in November 2019 when the 2019 health profiles were first published and, as such, will become outdated as the HTML and Fingertips data are updated on the PHE website.  Therefore please refer to the health profiles at Public Health England’s website for the latest data.

    The Local Health website, developed as part of the Health Profiles programme, provides access to maps and data at small area level. There is also a PHE Fingertips page for Local Health.

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