The Health Inequalities annual report provides detailed information on our approach, priorities and progress for addressing health inequalities in Dorset. It sets out our new health inequalities framework developed with partners, eight cross cutting workstreams to support delivery of this and the action we are taking to address health inequalities.
The report includes detailed information on variation across 24 indicators (areas of work) for a number of population groups – this includes looking at differences in access to services between people who live in more deprived areas, different age groups, genders, ethnic groups and disability.
Service areas looked at in the report include planned hospital stays, outpatients services, and emergency use of healthcare services, waiting times, flu and covid vaccination, mental health services, cardio vascular disease, cancer, diabetes, maternity services, oral health, services for people with learning disability or autistic people.
This is a new report recently requested by NHS England. We will use the information from this years report to help us to improve our ability to understand differences in access and outcomes from health and care services, and further develop improvement plans and focus our efforts where we identify issues.
In future reports, we will look to include further analysis by other protected characteristics or inequalities groups where information is available.
