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Data and release highlights
Relationship between time spent in emergency departments, employment, and hospitalisation, England: 2021 to 2025
On the 16 September, the ONS released analysis exploring the relationship between time spent in type 1 emergency departments, including A&E, subsequent employment outcomes, and the risk of later hospitalisation among working-age employees in England.
Musculoskeletal elective treatment waiting times
The publication, Relationship between musculoskeletal elective treatment waiting times and labour market outcomes, was released by the ONS on 9 September and gives data for England between 2014 to 2025.
Births in England and Wales: 2025 (final rates)
On 8 September, the ONS published the final birth rates in England and Wales: 2025. This publication includes annual live births, stillbirths, maternities, and fertility rates.
The estimates are broken down by:
- characteristics of the child such as sex, gestational age, birthweight, ethnicity, and cause of death (stillbirths)
- characteristics of the parents such as age, previous live-born children, National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC), marital status, and country of birth
- area of usual residence and Index of Multiple Deprivation
Updates from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
Adult mental health and wellbeing profile
This release is about mortality and excess mortality in people who are aged 18 to 74 years and referred to secondary mental health services. Data is available for the period 2022 to 2024 for:
- cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and liver disease
- England, statistical regions and upper tier local authorities
Suicide in people with severe mental health problems
The key findings in this update show analysis of the proportion of people who died by suicide aged 18 to 74 years, who had been referred to secondary mental health services in the five years before death, including:
- breakdowns by sex
- comparison of suicide rates between people who had been referred to secondary mental health services and those who had not, including differences by sex
Wider determinants of health profile
This health profile now includes a new topic about gambling. The indicators added were modelled local authority level prevalence estimates based on data from the Gambling Survey of Great Britain.
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Things to note
Save the date for the UK's flagship health data research conference
The Health Data Research UK's (HDR UK) flagship conference returns to Belfast on 6 and 7 October 2027, at the ICC Belfast, Northern Ireland.
This event is the place to connect with the UK health data research community and help shape the future of health data research. It will bring together up to 900 researchers, clinicians, health data scientists, policymakers, funders and industry leaders for two days of world-class speakers, cutting-edge research, collaboration and networking.
Further details, including sponsorship opportunities, abstract submissions, and registration, will be announced soon – go to the HDRUK website.
Births and deaths in England and Wales
On Thursday 15 October, the ONS is hosting the latest webinar in the ‘Population in Numbers’ series.
Hear more about recent births and deaths statistics and how they inform population estimates.
Help shape the future of ONS services
The ONS User Research Panel is a group of volunteers who take part in research activities that help the ONS understand how people use its services and identify opportunities to improve them.
You can take part by signing up now.
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Useful links
Health and care statistics
You can find more information on health and care statistics on the Analysis Function website.
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Newsletter content
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