Public Health 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 wellbeing, and reduce inequalities. With these profiles you can:

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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'Public Health England. Public Health Profiles. [Date accessed] https://fingertips.phe.org.uk © Crown copyright [Year]'

Accessing data with the Fingertips API

The Fingertips API (Chrome or Firefox only for the documentation) allows public health data to be retrieved in either JSON or CSV formats

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

User Guide

An introduction to using the Fingertips Tool

Latest News

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: