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Ward level data is made available through an update to the HNA toolkit

21 December 2009

Commissioning Support for London (CSL) has today launched the first update to its Health Needs Assessment (HNA) Toolkit.

The toolkit is an interactive portal which provides PCTs and their strategic partners with a single point of access to a range of indicators that will support their needs assessment requirements. These include, but are not limited to, the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment “core dataset”. The accurate, comparable data within the toolkit provides a framework for agreeing local priorities, enabling basic pan-London comparisons and forming the foundations for more in-depth analysis.

In response to user demand, the update includes 14 small area (electoral ward level) indicators; 14 new local authority indicators; and refreshed data for 10 ten existing indicators.

Electoral ward indicators:

  • Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) for all causes
  • Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) for all cancers
  • Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) for CHD
  • Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) for circulatory disease
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for all causes
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for all elective admissions
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for all emergency admissions
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for all cancers
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for all circulatory disease
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for CHD
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for respiratory disease
  • Standardised Admission Ratio (SAR) for accidental falls
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Number and percentage born with low birth weight (<2500 grams)

New local authority indicators:

  • ONS migration indicators, 2001 - 2008
  • Self-reported measure of people's health and well-being (NI 119)
  • Alcohol misuse
  • The Local Child Well-being Index, 2009
  • Life expectancy at age 65
  • Life expectancy at age 65, trend
  • Statutory homelessness
  • Violent crime
  • Breast feeding initiation
  • Physically active children
  • Over 65s "not in good health"
  • Incapacity benefits for mental illness
  • Drug misuse
  • Excess winter deaths

Refreshed indicators:

  • ONS Mid year population estimates 2008
  • Estimated resident population by ethnic group, 2007
  • Deaths from smoking
  • TB incidence data
  • Flu jabs
  • Immunisation - 1st birthday
  • Immunisation - 2nd birthday
  • Immunisation - 5th birthday
  • Immunisation - HPV
  • Chlamydia

Additional small area data and further developments are planned for the launch of version two of the toolkit in March 2010.