Better Health Intelligence
Challenges
Public services are under increasing pressure to deliver better outcomes, more effective partnership working, more responsive services and better value for money. This makes it more important than ever for decision-makers to have a good working knowledge of essential data and information about the area they serve. Capturing, interpreting and communicating up-to-date health intelligence about their local population can help them make the right decisions at the right time. It can also help them do this in the most cost-effective way. This approach supports the government’s key public health commitment to help commissioners to identify and address health inequalities.
What we do?
We provide high quality health intelligence to help you better understand the needs of your local population before making key decisions to improve people’s health and reduce health inequalities.
We provide you with the tools to identify priorities, measure change and monitor outcomes. We provide health intelligence nationally and regionally on cancer, coronary heart disease, health inequalities, obesity, transport and physical activity. We deliver the public health observatory function for the South East, providing data and meaningful health intelligence on people’s health and health care in the South East area.
We undertake a range of public health surveillance functions which help our clients to monitor and evaluate the services they deliver. Our cancer intelligence function monitors trends in incidence, prevalence and survival and we use this information to evaluate the effectiveness of prevention and screening programmes. We also provide information about the quality and outcomes of cancer care, by providing comparative data about treatment patterns and outcomes.
Understanding the health profile of each local area is the key to making informed decisions for your local population. Our health intelligence capability supports public services in identifying and understanding local challenges, agreeing priorities and identifying solutions. We help PCTs and NHS trusts contribute to Local Area Agreements by benchmarking performance and measuring progress towards outcomes.
We are able to access multiple data sources and interpret and analyse complex and sophisticated datasets. Our expertise in data management means your decisions are founded on sound information.
The value we bring
Proven experience: We have an unrivalled track record in delivering local population centric health intelligence programmes for a range of clients, across multiple topic areas. We are the provider of choice because our clients trust in our ability to deliver over the long-term.
Leading edge: Through the established health intelligence programmes we run we keep apace with the very latest issues and challenges facing our clients. Vitally, we use this insight to inform our tailored services to enable our clients to deliver better health outcomes.
