UK Statistics Authority's Role in Ensuring Trustworthy Health and Care Statistics in England
The UK Statistics Authority, established under the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, plays a crucial role in promoting the production and publication of high-quality official statistics in the field of health and care. They emphasize the importance of trustworthy, valuable statistics that meet the highest standards of quality. The Authority oversees the production of key statistics by the Office for National Statistics and regulates all government-produced statistics across the UK. Ensuring the data ecosystem evolves positively, the Authority focuses on areas such as analysis, artificial intelligence, and data transparency. The Summit held in July 2016 highlighted the need for change and emphasized appreciating, envisioning, dialoguing, and implementing advancements in health and care statistics.
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Health & Care Statistics in England What is the UK Statistics Authority looking for? Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation Health and Care Statistics Summit 8 July 2016
The UK Statistics Authority: The UK Statistics Authority: Established under the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 Statutory objective: to promote and safeguard the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good The Authority has two roles: Office for National Statistics production of key statistics Regulation of all statistics produced by government across the UK
Statistics should be: Statistics should be: Trustworthy High quality Valuable
The statistics meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value
Health and care statistics should be: Health and care statistics should be: trustworthy taking account of needs of wide range of decision-makers not just NHS orderly release high quality fully exploiting administrative data from various sources clarifying responsibility for fixing data problems standards for management information publicly valued leadership and coordination across the system easier access to statistics e.g. for researchers protecting insight -complement latest snapshot data framework for health and care statistics
Emerging data ecosystem Emerging data ecosystem National Information Board Data science and Big Data Caldicott review Focus on analysis Biomedics National Minimum Datasets Intelligent transparency E-Health
The Summit: a positive approach to change The Summit: a positive approach to change Discover: Appreciating valuing the best of what is Dream: Envisioning what might be Design: Engaging in dialogue about what should be Deploy: Bringing it into reality Discover Design Deploy Dream
The Authoritys role going forward The Authority s role going forward Advocating, championing, enforcing if necessary Providing a public platform for the narrative Helping to discover Pushing the ambition
Health & Care Statistics in England Health & Care Statistics in England What is the UK Statistics Authority looking for? Statistics Authority looking for? What is the UK Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation Health and Care Statistics Summit 8 July 2016
