Feb 2025

Following the response to the 2024 Health and Social Care Statistics consultation, the Productive Healthy Ageing profile will be discontinued in March and several indicators will be no longer updated. The indicators affected are listed here: Productive Healthy Ageing Profile Discontinuation. 

March 2023

Update of adult social care indicators relating to independent living support and care home admissions in the 'Enhance Care & Support' domain. In the "Improve Wellbeing & Wider Determinants of Health' domain, the indicator on winter fuel payments have been updated. Due to changes in methodology of the indicator production, this indicator has been replaced with new method and title (ID 93945). In the 'Demographics & Mortality' domain, the  deaths due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer in ages 65+ have been updated.

February 2023

Update of adult social care indicators relating to independent living support and care home admissions in the 'Enhance Care & Support' domain including adult social care user and carer survey-based indicators. Additionally, osteoporosis and palliative care indicators have also been updated. In the 'Optimise Health & Reduce Risks Early' domain, a number of indicators relating health screening, including cancer screening have been updated. In the "Improve Wellbeing & Wider Determinants of Health' domain, indicators relating to anxiety, mood, employment status and social isolation have been updated. In the 'Reverse or Live Well with a Long term condition' domain, prevalence of coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes prevalence; diabetes treatment; cancer incidence and referrals; rheumatoid arthritis; dementia care plans have all been updated. In the 'Demographics & Mortality' domain, the 2021 population of people aged 65 and over has been updated based on the new census data. 

January 2022

Update of adult social care indicators relating to independent living support and care home admissions in the 'Enhance Care & Support' domain. Note that adult social care user and carer survey-based indicators cannot be updated due to the impact of COVID-19 on data collections in 2020-21. 

December 2021

Update of indicators relating to: coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes prevalence; diabetes treatment; cancer incidence and referrals; rheumatoid arthritis; dementia care plans; and deaths due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer in ages 65+ (revised method) and by age group as described here.