The Role of the Yorkshire

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The Role of the Yorkshire Humber Public Health
Observatory

• Lorraine Oldridge
• Business/Project Lead

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What PHOs were set up to do

• Monitoring health and disease trends and
  highlighting areas for action
• Identifying gaps in health information
• Advising on methods for health and health
  inequality impact assessments
• Drawing together information from different
  sources in new ways to improve health
• Carrying out projects to highlight particular
  health issues
• Evaluating progress by local agencies in
  improving health and cutting inequality and
• Looking ahead to give early warning of future
  public health problems

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Public Health Observatories

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Yorkshire Humber region

• 5.1 million people

• 3 SHAs
• 34 PCTs

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Yorkshire Humber region

• 5.1 million people
• 3 SHAs
• 34 PCTs

• 22 LAs
• (inc. DCs, CCs and UAs)
• 20 NHS Hospital Trusts
• 2 Care Trusts

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Who Do We Serve?
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The regional public health intelligence function

• Public Health Observatories
• Health Development Agency
• Health Protection Agency
• Cancer Registries
• YHPHO is an NHS organisation based on the
  University of York campus

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Organisational Chart
Professor Brian Ferguson Director
Jake Abbas Deputy Director / Senior Public Health
Information Specialist
Lorraine Oldridge Business/Project Lead
David Merrick PH Information Specialist
(seconded 2 days from GOYH PH Team
Caroline Kier Health Impact Assessment
Development Manager
James Nelson-Smith Public Health Information
Specialist (HES)
Ceri Wyborn Public Health Information Specialist
Paul Wilkinson Website Developer
Lynne Chatterton Co-ordinator
Marion Moss Public Health Information Analyst(HES)
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Work Programme 2004/5

• Internal Management of the YHPHO
• Website development
• Diabetes
• Partnership Development
• Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Safe Haven Role
• Support to Primary Care Trusts
• Health Scrutiny
• Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
• Capacity Building
• Public Health Intelligence
• Research

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Diabetes Prevalence Model

• Project being led by YHPHO
• Partners
• ScHARR, University of Sheffield (Trent model)
• Brent Primary Care Trust (Brent model)
• NCASP (register-based model)
• Updating
• new Census data / health areas
• ethnicity
• obesity (BMI)
• Dissemination
• Spreadsheet model available on website
• Web-link www.yhpho.org.uk

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Supporting PCTs and LSPs

• Comparative data analysis
• Health equity audit
• Development of health inequalities indicators
• Analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
• Development and support of Public Health
  Information Analysts networks
• Support Directors of Public Health in production
  of Annual Reports
• Develop links to Public Health Networks.

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White Paper

• We will invest in and develop the PHOs and set
  up a Health Information and Intelligence Task
  Force to lead action to develop and implement a
  comprehensive public health information and
  intelligence strategy.
• Real-time public health information
• Identify an agreed set of core data
• Tackle weaknesses within existing data
• Bringing together sources on information on
  health and wellbeing
• Build on PHO regional public health indicators
• Work with HPA
• Use new sources, such as marketing information
• Give guidance on data sharing, and on disclosure
  and confidentiality
• Build on existing knowledge management systems

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White Paper YHPHO Support Locally

• real-time health surveillance
• PHOs will support the development of skills for
  example HEA and HIA.
• PHOs are a key contributor towards partnerships
  and networks
• develop a standard set of local health
  information that can be linked to other local
  data sets for publication. PHOs will produce
  reports designed for local communities at local
  authority level which will support DsPH. First
  reports in 2006 along with national report.
• Local communities need clear, understandable
  and timely information about local needs and
  trends.

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Success factors

• Support to PCT DsPH / LSPs
• National diabetes lead role
• Web site - visibility / usefulness
• Adding value to local / sub-regional networks
• Effective networks of public health information
  specialists / analysts
• Making a contribution beyond the NHS

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Our Contact Details

• www.apho.org.uk
• www.yhpho.org.uk
• Alcuin Research and Resource Centre
• The University of York
• Heslington
• YORK YO10 5DD
• Telephone [phone]
• Email yhpho-info_at_york.ac.uk