Welcome to the May Public Health Information Briefing.
The purpose of our monthly Briefings is to provide healthcare commissioners and planners with
intelligence about population health in the City.
Your local Public Health Intelligence web pages…
You may not be aware of the many resources available on our website, so this month’s newsletter gives
a flavour of the wealth of public health information and tools available. We hope that you will visit the
site and make use of this in providing and commissioning health services in Southampton.
The public health intelligence pages can be found at:
http://www.southamptonhealth.nhs.uk/aboutus/publichealth/hi/
Our most recent resource is an
interactive
tool
for
producing
population pyramids. This excel-based
tool produces population pyramids for
wards, localities and GP practices and
compares the profile to that of the City
as a whole and the national average.
This is extremely useful background
information when considering other
data; for instance, this profile of the
University practice shows how very
different it is from the rest of the City.
The tool also allows the user to look at
how the population structure for
localities and wards is forecast to
change over the 2011 to 2018 period,
which may help illustrate changes in
demand for healthcare services in the
future.
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The population pyramid tool can be found on the new ‘City Profiles’ page of our website. In addition to
our locally produced profiles, this webpage includes a national profiles section providing downloads of
the Southampton profiles and links to their originating website. Just on this one page you can find
profiles for our city on alcohol, sexual health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental health, end of life
care and many others. A screenshot of the City Profiles web page is shown below and can be accessed at:
www.southamptonhealth.nhs.uk/aboutus/publichealth/hi/profiles/
On the public health intelligence pages you will also find links to the Southampton JSNA, Annual Reports
from the Director of Public Health as well as past editions of these newsletters and in-depth briefing
notes on topics such as obesity and inequalities. Soon we will be adding a mapping resource page where
you will be able to download popular maps such as Southampton ward boundaries and GP practice
locations.
We are developing our website all the time so if you have any suggestions for public health intelligence
resources that you would like to be able to access via the website then please let us know (contact
details below).
We hope you have found this resource interesting and welcome your feedback and comments.
Next month’s newsletter will launch our latest practice profiles.
For further information visit www.southamptonhealth.nhs.uk/aboutus/publichealth/hi or contact the team:
Rebecca Wilkinson
Tel: 02380 833871
[email protected]
Dan King
Tel: 02380 832493
[email protected]
Sarah McCann
Tel: 02380 832483
[email protected]