Highlighted Profiles
National Public Health Profiles
- AMR local indicators
- Atlas of Variation
- Cancer Services
- Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Kidney Disease
- Child and Maternal Health
- Health Protection
- Inequality Tools
- Inhale - INteractive Health Atlas of Lung conditions in England
- Learning Disability Profiles
- Liver Disease Profiles
- Local Alcohol Profiles for England
- Local Authority Health Profiles
- Local Health
- Local Tobacco Control Profiles
- Marmot Indicators
- Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology
- Modelled Prevalence Estimates
- Mortality Profile
- Musculoskeletal Conditions
- National General Practice Profiles
- Obesity Profile
- NHS Health Check
- Palliative and End of Life Care Profiles
- Physical Activity
- Productive Healthy Ageing Profile
- Public Health Dashboard
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles
- TB Strategy Monitoring Indicators
- Technical Guidance
- Wider Determinants of Health
- Wider Impacts of COVID-19 on Health
About the profiles
These profiles are a rich source of indicators across a range of health and wellbeing themes that has been designed to support JSNA and commissioning to improve health and
- Browse indicators at different geographical levels
- Benchmark against the regional or England average
- Export data to use locally
These profiles have been developed by Public Health England. See New features for information about new functionality.
Data sharing and reuse
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Accessing data with the Fingertips API
The Fingertips API (best viewed in Chrome, Firefox or Safari) allows public health data to be retrieved in either JSON or CSV formats. A beginner's guide to the Fingertips API is also available, together with the supporting Annex.
Using R
The fingertipsR package allows you to use the API to download public health data using R.
Using Python
The fingertips_py package allows you to use the API to download public health data using Python.
Latest News
July 2021
A beginner's guide to using Fingertips API is available here.
March 2021
New design launched. New navigation improves the usability especially on small screens.
Online Child health profiles updated and
new PDF reports for Counties & UAs published:
September 2020
Wider Impacts of Covid on Health launched. Brings together selected indicators with potential impacts on health as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2020
New smoking prevalence in adults estimates for 2019 published in the Local Tobacco Control Profiles including inequalities data, plus a new indicator measuring the gap in smoking prevalence by mental health status and updated data for cancer registrations and smoking-related fires.
June 2020
Fingertips updates once a month and each profile follows its own (annual) update cycle which might have to be altered due to the demands of the COVID-19 related work.
For the latest figures about COVID-19 please view the COVID-19 dashboard
March 2020
Annual PDF snapshot child health profiles for upper-tier local authorities published and online child health profiles have been updated
New End-of-life Health Care indicator:
% deaths with 3+ emergency admissions in last 3m of life
February 2020
Note: Issues have been found with recent updates to hospital activity indicators due to a flaw in the data source: Apr - Nov 2018, 85,000 records without a diagnosis code were submitted in East Sussex. This error affects all related geographies which include this hospital's catchment area.
January 2020
Primary Care Networks added.
This new area type depends on suitable GP data. For more details please see the Notes
December 2019
Annual update of Cancer services and National GP profiles
October 2019
Updates for many indicators in Wider determinants of Health
Palliative and End of Life Care Profiles: Name change and Resource directory added
High impact Areas
Summaries for Early years and
Young people released:
June 2019
Productive Healthy Ageing Profile launched
Data can now be downloaded with Python using the fingertips_py package
March 2019
New Child health profiles published
January 2019
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For older items see Archived news