Health and social care statistics June 2025

Posted June 2, 2025

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Health and social care statistics June 2025

This newsletter from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), brings together official data, events and insights into health and social care from across the Government Statistical Service (GSS).

The content is provided by health professionals from across the UK. If you have information to share, a spotlight piece, new or updated data releases, or if you have a relevant survey or webinar that you would like to promote, then please get in touch with us. We look forward to hearing from you.

Spotlight

Health data science seminar series

The next webinar in this series will be on Environment and Health and takes place on Wednesday 4 June, at 2pm.

Hear from the guest speakers:

Professor Pia Hardelid, Professor of Epidemiology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, presenting on ‘The Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort’, a new national birth cohort for environmental child health research.
Professor Rich Fry, Professor of Environment and Health, Swansea University, will explore how we can use linked health data and environmental data to better understand the wider determinants of health with examples from the SAIL (Secure Anonymised Information Linkage) databank.

Full details are available via Eventbrite, or you can contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

Register now on Eventbrite

Data and release highlights

Inequality in life expectancy in the Public Health Outcomes Framework

The May release of the Public Health Outcomes Framework was updated on indicators of inequality in life expectancy. In 2021 to 2023, the gap in male life expectancy at birth between those living in the most and least deprived areas in England was 10.5 years, and for female life expectancy the gap was 8.3 years.

Inequality in life expectancy increased significantly during the pandemic and estimates for 2021 to 2023 were higher than those before 2020 for both sexes. Between 2011 to 2013 and 2021 to 2023, inequality in male life expectancy widened by 1.4 years and the gap for female life expectancy widened by 1.5 years.

Inequality within some local authorities is even larger than that within England. The largest gap in 2021 to 2023 was in Middlesbrough, where the difference between most and least deprived was 17.2 years for male life expectancy and 14.9 years for female life expectancy.

View the Public Health Outcomes Framework

View the May Public Health Outcomes Framework commentary

NHS activity and performance summary | GOV.WALES

This report summarises data on activity and performance in the Welsh NHS and NHS performance for the Welsh Local Health Boards for March and April 2025.

NHS activity and performance summary

Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 | GOV.WALES

Read the data on referrals and waiting times for Local Primary Mental Health Support Services in Wales between January and March 2025.

Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010

Detentions under Section 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act

| GOV.WALES

Read about the number of detentions in Wales by age, gender, ethnicity, place of safety and outcome of assessment, for January to March 2025.

Read the report

Things to note

Evaluation of UKHSA surveillance outputs related to antimicrobial resistance

The UKHSA’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and Healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) division, with the Evaluation and Epidemiological Science division are working on an assessment to improve UKHSA-provided surveillance outputs related to the AMR national action plan 2024-2029.

These include surveillance statistics and monitoring data on various bacterial and fungal infections, antimicrobial use, pathogen resistance rates and antimicrobial stewardship.

Your insights to their survey by 30 June will help assess the impact and improve the accessibility, content, and presentation of UKHSA’s AMR and HCAI surveillance data to better meet your needs. This matters, even if you do not use any AMR or HCAI surveillance data.

Complete the survey

Annual suicide statistics survey

The ONS is exploring ways to improve its annual suicide statistics to ensure clarity for all users. Specifically, the team is seeking views on using the year of death registration, compared to the year of occurrence.

Further context and three potential options are outlined in this short questionnaire on user requirements for official suicide statistics. The survey is open until Wednesday 18 June 2025.

If you have questions about the survey, please email the team:  [email protected].

Complete the questionnaire now

Explore the refreshed StatsUserNetwork

StatsUserNetwork is a forum for users and producers of official statistics to share knowledge, ask questions, and discuss all things data. The StatsUserNet team at the ONS is pleased to announce that the new version of the online discussion forum is live. The forum has been reworked following extensive user research and engagement, and now has several new features including:

better profile creation to connect users with similar interests
reorganising the site by groups, including a dedicated health and social care group, so users can focus on the areas that are important to them
options for users to publish and, or share information in a variety of ways, from simple forum comments to content-rich blogs

You can sign up right now by going to the StatsUserNetwork home page and following the sign-up instructions. Useful guidance on getting started on the new site is in the ‘About us’ section located in the top toolbar. The team are also hosting some demonstrations of the new site that you can sign up to attend. If you have any questions regarding StatsUserNetwork, please contact us on [email protected].