Trainee Public Health Analyst (12 Month Student Placement)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a hard-working and enthusiastic undergraduate student to join NHS Warwickshire on a one-year placement to work within the Public Health Intelligence Team and the Warwickshire Observatory. The Analyst will be responsible for providing specialist public health intelligence input across NHS Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Council and partners. This will include [...]

ONS Under-18 Conception Figures Published

On the 28th of February the Office for National Statistics published the under-18 conception figures for 2010. In 2010 there were 333 under-18 conceptions within Warwickshire; this equates to a rate of 34.8 conceptions per 1,000 females aged 15-17. Approximately 53% of these conceptions ended in abortion. The rate for 2010 shows a decrease of [...]

Adult Participation in Sport and Active Recreation

Sport England’s Active People Survey provides by far the largest sample size ever established for a sport and recreation survey and allows levels of detailed analysis previously unavailable. It identifies how participation varies from place to place and between different groups in the population. The survey also measures; the proportion of the adult population that [...]

Marmot Indicators for Local Authorities 2012

Figures recently released by the London Health Observatory to mark the second anniversary of the release of the Marmot Review Fair Society, Healthy Lives show that while life expectancy improved for most of the 150 local authority areas in England that will take over responsibility for public health in April 2013, inequalities within these areas [...]

End of Life Care Profiles Updated

  The South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO), as national lead public health observatory for end of life care, was commissioned by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) to develop a set of indicators to help identify and understand variation in end of life care across England. This resulted in the development [...]

APHO National General Practice Profiles and Disease Prevalence Estimates Launched

The Association of Public Health Observatories have recently launched a revised National General Practice Profiles tool and updated Disease Prevalence Estimates. National General Practice Profiles The National General Practice Profiles tool is a freely accessible web-based tool designed to support GPs, clinical commissioning groups and PCTs to ensure that they are providing and commissioning effective [...]

Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool Released

A useful Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool (the ‘gap tool’) has been released today. This has been produced on behalf of the Public Health Observatories in England. The gap tool is an accessible, web-based resource providing detailed information on the nature and extent of the health inequalities gap within and between all Local Authority and [...]

2011 Joint Director of Public Health Annual Report – Profiles

In conjunction with the 2011 Annual Report of the Joint Director of Public Health, a series of profiles have been drawn up to give more detailed information about the priority areas for 2011 for each of the Districts and Boroughs within Warwickshire. The five priorities being: obesity, alcohol, cancer & screening, mental health & wellbeing [...]