HC Deb 06 February 2004 vol 417 cc1127-8W
Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list health statistics which are collected by ethnic minority grouping. [151908]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 4 February 2004]The Department of Health encourages ethnic data collection at the primary care level, but these data are not available centrally.

Key health statistics collected by ethnic group and publicly available are listed:

Department of Health

  • Health Survey for England
  • Hospital Episode Statistics, data are collected by ethnic group but are not publicly available
  • Morbidity Statistics from General Practice
  • NHS workforce censuses: medical and dental, non-medical
  • personal Social Services User Experience Survey

Office for National Statistics

  • 2001 Census
  • Annual Local Area Labour Force Survey
  • General Household Survey
  • Millennium Cohort Study
  • Mortality Statistics
  • Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Prisoners

Commission for Health Improvement

National Survey of NHS Patients

Department of Work and Pensions-

Family Resource Survey