Closing Time? report

London Health Observatory’s Closing Time? report outlines the cost of alcohol attributable admissions to the NHS in London. London is paying in excess of £264m a …more >

Department of Health launches two SBRI competitions

Wednesday 28th March, 2012 Today the Department of Health launches two SBRI competitions, the competitions seek to find technological solutions to health sector problems. The …more >

HNA refresh of data – March 2012

The health needs assessment toolkit data has been updated. Data has been refreshed for 63 indicators, including updated ward level standardised mortality ratios, cancer registrations, teenage …more >

Latest maternity profiles

Our new maternity profiles which show, for the first time, a comprehensive local maternity picture for each London borough have been released. The pathway profiles …more >

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We also provide commissioners with intelligence that assesses London’s health needs and identifies service gaps and priorities. Our health needs assessment toolkit provides London’s commissioners with access to a range of indicators of health needs. We also develop tools to model future patient activity across London, giving commissioners the information needed to improve value for money in frontline service, drive up standards of care, invest in prevention and treat patients closer to home.

Specialised burns service principles now available

The case for change, co-dependencies framework and service principles for the specialised burns project have been published on behalf of the London, South East Coast, South Central and East of England specialised commissioning groups.

London Health Observatory

The latest version of the local tobacco control profiles was published on 24 January 2012. The profiles provide up-to-date information on the health problems caused by smoking. This update includes the cost per capita of smoking attributable hospital admissions in 2009/10, the latest data on smoking prevalence and smoking quitters.

www.tobaccoprofiles.info

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