Areas of interest

Find our data and publications by selecting your area of interest.

These pages combine our data sets, data collections, publications and clinical audits into one place based on your area of interest.

Estates and facilities data hub

NHS Digital collects a large variety of data on the NHS estate including costs, incidents, land surplus to requirements, and the quality of the healthcare environment from the patient perspective.

Ethnicity

Information about how NHS Digital collects and uses ethnicity data. NHS Digital collects information on ethnicity in areas covering births, general practice and secondary uses.

Hospital care

We have a variety of information covering all aspects of secondary care which can help you plan, monitor and improve services.

Prescribing data

Prescribing is the most common patient-level intervention in the NHS, and covers all sectors of care: primary, hospital, public and community health. It is the second highest area of spending in the NHS, after staffing costs.

Primary care

We collect and publish a wide range of information on primary care. Primary care includes general practice, community pharmacy, dental, and optometry (eye health) services. This data gives valuable insight into how services are provided and is used to plan, deliver and monitor services.

Public health

The choices people make can have a lasting impact on their health. Improving patient care isn't just about treating people's individual diseases, it also means changing and preventing harmful behaviours which can improve and even save people's lives.

Social care

We work with social care data, including social services and safeguarding data, to produce data sets that are used to monitor spending and quality of care and plan and provide services.

Workforce data hub

Around 1.4 million people make up the NHS workforce in England, all contributing towards its overall effectiveness. Staffing is the single largest cost within the health system, so efforts to improve quality and reduce costs are often dependent on workforce data

Last edited: 4 January 2023 10:40 am