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Compendium
“The Compendium brings together indicators from several data sets developed historically by the Department of Health (DH) over a number of years in response to a variety of needs and policy initiatives, for example, the Public Health Common Data Set, population health outcome indicators, Our Healthier Nation (OHN) indicators, clinical indicators, cancer survival indicators and others.
The production of the Compendium is commissioned and funded by the DH and undertaken by the London site of the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD), based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. NCHOD is responsible for indicator specifications and technical annexes, analyses of the majority of the data, checking and formatting of data from external sources, preparation of tables, graphs and maps, and production of the Compendium. The DH is responsible for commissioning the work, co-ordination of data extracts from the DH, Office for National Statistics (ONS) and other sources, analyses of data for some indicators, and the co-editing of relevant specifications and technical annexes.
The Compendium indicators cover various aspects of population health and clinical and health outcome. Data are analysed by age, gender, National Health Service (NHS) and government geographical boundaries (national, regional, local) and health care institutions, for the most recent year(s) and with trend data for selected indicators. A variety of different statistical analyses such as direct and indirect standardisation, years of life lost etc. are available. Each indicator covers different combinations of all these aspects, based on what is possible and feasible with currently available routine data and these are described in detail within each indicator specification.”
(Compendium User Guide, May 2005)
Many of the indicators can be downloaded from the following links however, Yorkshire and Humber subsets of the indicators are available for download (see below).
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