1. A ssociation of Public Health Observatories Health Profiles Health Profiles Team

2. Wanless Report “Health data are essential for monitoring the health of the population and for evaluating the effects of health interventions. Yet the information collected nationally is often poor and there is no regular mechanism by which a PCT or LA can gather reliable information on its own population.”

3. Delivering Choosing Health ‘We will develop a standard set of local health information that can be linked to other local data sets for publication. Public Health Observatories will produce reports designed for local communities at local authority level which will support Directors of Public Health in promoting health in their area’.

4. Community Health Profiles These reports will: Include information on different groups Provide information for communities based on local authority boundaries; Assist in the production and comparison of Director of Public Health reports; Provide consistent national reporting of key data, which would become comparable over time; Include new public health data sets.

5. Public Health Information and Intelligence Task Force To develop and implement a comprehensive information and intelligence strategy for England. The strategy will: develop an evidence based “real time” public health information system taking account of relevant cost-effective interventions. promote action to improve health and tackle health inequalities at national, regional and local levels. encompass the information and intelligence needs of the whole NHS, its partner agencies and local communities in general.

6. Health Profiles – the what To provide a consistent, concise, comparable and balanced overview of the population’s health that informs local needs assessment, policy, planning, performance management, surveillance and practice. A distillate of the absolutely key, most useful (currently available) indicators ( with a reference to new data/indicators and unavailable data/indicators).

7. Health Profiles – for whom To be primarily of use to joint efforts between local government and the health service to improve health and reduce health inequalities, but ultimately to empower the wider community

8. Existing Indicator Sets At least 24 different sets of local regional and national sets of indicators have been identified No national stable community health profiles have been identified

9. Health Profiles Project Stage 1 Indicator/ Metadata design, definition and iteration year on year Stage 2 Populating indicators and comparators over time and space ) [crunching] Stage 3 Dissemination of Health Profile to professionals (with interpretation) to a) assist professional response to public report b) assist in writing of any PCT/LA/DPH Annual Report c) reference to sources of interventional evidence (e.g. from NICE) where available and appropriate

10. Domain - Our Communities Indicators: Deprivation Air quality Poor quality housing Children in poverty GCSE achievement (A*-C) Violent crime Older people supported at home

11. Domain - Giving children and young people a healthy start Indicators: Smoking in pregnancy (gap) Breast feeding (gap) Obese children (gap) Physically active children (gap) Teenage pregnancy(under 18)

12. Domain - The way we live Indicators: People who smoke Binge drinking Healthy eating Physically active adults (gap) Obese adults

13. Domain - How long we live and what we die of Indicators: Life expectancy – male Life expectancy - female Early deaths - smoking Early deaths - heart disease & stroke Early deaths - cancer Infant deaths (under 1 year) Road injuries and deaths

14. Domain - Health and ill health in our community Indicators: Feeling “in poor health” Mental health treatment Alcohol related hospital stays Drug misuse treatment People with diabetes Children’s tooth decay Sexually transmitted infections (gap)

15. Profiles A profile indicator set for all 386 local authority areas in England (County, District and Unitary) All profiles will have the same format LA compared with ONS cluster, region and England 30 indicators in a spine chart (health summary)  2 analysed by ward (maps)  1 by ethnicity  3 trend display Interpretation/key messages

20. Outputs targeted at professional audience - June 2006 Reports Audience – professional/public; LA/LSP Website Action, e.g. LAA & performance monitoring Health Overview and Scrutiny Committees Neighbourhood renewal

21. Outputs targeted at the public - Autumn 2006 Community Health Profiles Communication with the public Being led by the DH social marketing unit Public facing magazine style reports

22. Community Health Profiles Project Please send any comments to: info@communityhealthprofiles.info Further information on profiles can be found at: www.communityhealthprofiles.info