September 2024
New homepage, improved navigation, better search!
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August 2024
Public Health Technical Guidance, part of the supporting documentation for Fingertips indicators, has been updated, with a new format and some updated content.
For older items see Archived news
June 2024
All STI indicators updated in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles
ICB data added to Mortality Profile
May 2024
New summary report 'Health trends in England' launched
This month's Public Health Outcomes Framework release includes:
PHI/Online: New hub launched for the public health intelligence community for discussions, resources, training and events
March 2024
The 'Wider Impacts of COVID-19 on Health' Fingertips profile has been retired. Its indicators are still available in Fingertips and can be found using this list of the WICH indicators
February 2024
Excess Mortality within England: post-pandemic method published
Analysis of food categories in the calorie reduction guidelines: 2017 to 2021 published
Major updates released:
Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) renamed to Alcohol Profile
December 2023
Major updates released. E.g. for:
Inhale profile renamed to Respiratory Disease
November 2023
Dental services Profile launched
September 2023
Vision Profile launched
July 2023
The August update of Fingertips has been postponed until September due to capacity issues
June 2023
All STI indicators updated in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles including a new Shigella indicator
March 2023
GP profile for patients
launched
Child Health Profiles -
summary snapshot reports updated
February 2023
Sexual health Profile update and
SPLASH - 2023 reports released
December 2022
Major updates released. E.g. for:
September 2022
ONS 2021 population estimates are delayed to enable their alignment with Census results. This delay will have an impact on the publication of indicators which use populations either directly or in their denominators (compare Impact of Census 2021)
June 2022
Integrated Care Boards (ICBs): new geography type added to GP profiles
December 2021
HIV indicators updated in time for 1st Dec, World AIDS day
Cancer Services: annual update released
September 2021
All 14 STI indicators have been updated to include 2020 data in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles
Provisional STI data up to March 2021 are available from the WICH tool.
July 2021
Now available a beginner's guide to using the Fingertips API.
March 2021
New design launched. New navigation improves the usability especially on small screens.
Child and Maternal Health 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 to 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
Personalise what you see - create your own area lists using Your data (top right)
December 2018
June 2018
Overview of Child Health updated
April 2018
You can now create your own lists of indicators to focus on the data that is most relevant to you. Sign up to start creating your lists.
December 2017
GP profiles: new format and new data
November 2017
Musculoskeletal Diseases: new profile launched
July 2017
