Additional Resources | Central Bedfordshire JSNA

Additional sources of data, evidence & national tools

Below are links to a range of external sources of data and evidence

Partners

General

Central Bedfordshire Council: statistics and census information page
Central Bedfordshire Council: economic information
Health and Social Care Information Centre
Local health profiles (link goes to a ‘search results’ page that includes the CBC profile)

Inequalities

Health Inequalities Dashboard: Presents measures of inequality for 19 indicators, the majority drawn from the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF). [regions, and upper tier local authorities]
Segment Tool: This tool provides information on the causes of death and age groups that are driving inequalities in life expectancy at local area level. Targeting the causes of death which contribute most to the life expectancy gap should have the biggest impact on reducing inequalities.
Local Health: Quality assured small area health-related data visualised in maps, charts, area profiles, and reports.
Spotlight: is a data dissemination platform that collates and presents key statistics related to the public health outcomes of Inclusion health groups across the following themes: access to and utilisation of health care; preventative care; health outcomes; and wider determinants of health.
Excess Mortality: Looks at the number of deaths from 21 March 2020 above the number expected had the pandemic not occurred, based on mortality rates in earlier years.
Inequality slide packs [Knowledgehub registration needed to access]: This slide set also includes a number of Local Health indicators where there is a particularly strong statistical linear relationship with deprivation as measured by the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 (IMD 2019) at ward level
Local Inequality Explorer Tool 2023 [Will need to register]: The tool is to provide a resource to support decision making by demonstrating some local, within-area inequalities.
COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring for England tool (CHIME): brings together data relating to the impacts of COVID-19, for factors such as mortality rates, hospital admissions, confirmed cases, vaccinations and life expectancy. It presents inequality breakdowns, including by age, sex, ethnic group, level of deprivation, population density and region.
Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard; local authority dashboard bringing together data and insights on the state of health and health inequalities across all local authorities in England. The tool helps to explore how our health is shaped by factors such as housing, employment, and income, and explore differences between neighbourhoods in each local authority.

Commissioning tools

The following resources can help with evidence-based, cost-effective commissioning

Care spend estimating tool: Estimates how a local care economy spends its money by age group, patient group and care settings
Fingertips: is a large public health data collection. Data is organised into themed profiles
Health Index: Provides a single value for health that can show how health changes over time by Local Authority
Local Health: Small area health related data tool, maps, charts, area profiles and reports
Department for Education (DfE)
National Audit Office: A guide to successful commissioning
Governments Sufficiency Strategy guidance
Central Bedfordshire Council procurement guidance
Local Government Association guidance on Commissioning in a local authority
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board

Data website & observatories

Nomis: UK labour market statistics from the office of National Statistics (ONS).
Network of Public Health Observatories: Formerly the Association of Public Health Observatories. Links to a range of data items
POPPI: Projecting Older People Population information
PANSI: projecting Adult Needs and Service Information

Census 2021

Nomis: The full datasets from the latest census
ONS How life has changed: Data and analysis from Census 2021 on how your areas has changed in 10 years using visualisations
ONS Population change: Visualisations on how the population has changed by Local Authority
Build a custom area profile: Profiles can be built using a range of topics
LGInform Census profile: report provides an overview of the Census 2011 results
Census 2021 maps: use maps to find out what peoples lives were like across the LA in 2021

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID19: Official Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease situation dashboard with latest data in the UK
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Latest data and analysis on COVID-19.

Children & Young People

NHS

Vaccination: Childhood Vaccination coverage statistics 2021-22
Cervical Screening: Cervical Screening Programme – Coverage Statistics 2021-22
CVD Data & Improvement Tool: A national primary care audit that automatically extracts routinely held GP data.

Health and Housing

HACT Creating a blueprint for a new way of working (Nov ’21). Joint publication developed with CIH the ‘How To’ guide for health and housing
Tackling Health Inequalities (May ’23). Joint White Paper Report developed with CIH – Creating a Blueprint for a New Way of Working
Building Blocks for Life (Jan ’24). The joint publication with CIH around working in partnership to tackle inequalities
Health and Housing Insights bank (Oct ’24) A resource developed in partnership with CIH to support housing providers to build understanding of their residents’ health and wellbeing, to develop services either as landlords or in partnership with health and social care across shared local places and communities.
ADaM Report (March ’25) A process review publication with HACT covering the collaboration between Housing and Health in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes around Asthma, Damp and Mould (ADaM). Includes details of the process, data sharing best practice, lessons learned and example questions to identify those at risk and understand better the links between housing and health.