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Health Maps Wales - Release History

Release 16 - October 2016

 
Details of release: 
For the first time, Health Maps Wales will be available in a format suitable for mobiles and tablets.  The improved look will also include a new logo, modern colours and “key facts” on the home page.
  • A new health theme ‘Diseases of the digestive system’ including hospital admissions and mortality data relating to liver disease.
  • Update to Hospital Admissions data (PEDW) for the latest 10 years at local authority and health board level. Data available 2006/07 – 2015/16.
  • Update to Hospital Admissions data (PEDW) for the latest 10 years at for small areas (census geography) where numbers allow. Data is now available 2005/06 – 2014/15.
  • Update to mortality data for the latest 10 years at local authority and health board level.  Data available 2006 – 2015.
  • Births data from National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD) at local authority and health board level.  Data available 2006-2015.
  • Immunisations data from National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD) has been updated to include 2014 and 2015 data for all geographies.

Release 15 - November 2015

  • Update to PEDW hospital admission data for the latest 10 years at local authority and health board level. Data is now available 2005/06-2014/15.
  • Update to mortality data for the latest 10 years at local authority and health board level. Data is now available 2005-2014.
  • Update to mortality data for the latest 10 years for small areas (census geography) where numbers allow. Data is now available 2004-2013.
  • 2 new indicators under 'Mortality due to Alcohol-specific and attributable conditions'. Alcohol-specific and alcohol-attributable mortality rates are provided as European age-standardised (3-year rolling average) mortality rates per 100,000 population are available 2005/07-2012/14.
  • Population estimates have been updated to contain mid-year estimates 2011-2014 at local authority and health board level. Small area populations are available for 2011-2013.
  • The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2014 has been added under 'Deprivation (Census 2011-based)' and is available as a filter in lower layer super output area (LSOA) map reports.
  • Rural and Urban Classification (Census 2011-based) has been added at lower and middle layer super output areas and are available as filters in map reports using these geographies.

Release 14- August 2015

  • Update to PEDW Hospital admission data for the latest 10 years, 2004/05-2013/14. Admission rates have been standardised using the new 2013 European standard population.
  • Update to Births and babies indicators for the latest 10 years, 2004 – 2013, from the National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD).
  • Update to Immunisation data for 2013/14 from the National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD)
  • Update to Cancer Incidence data for the latest 10 years, 2004-2013 supplied by the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU). Incidence rates have been standardised using the new 2013 European standard population.

Release 13- September 2013

  • Update to Immunisations indicators from the National Community Child Health Database for 2012/13
  • Update to Births and babies indicators from the National Community Child Health Database for 2012 at Local Health Board and Unitary Authority level
  • Update to Cancer incidence data for 2011 – supplied by The Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit

Release 12 - February 2013

  • Update to Hospital Admissions data (PEDW) for 2011/12 at Local Health Board and Unitary Authority level
  • Update to Births and babies indicators from the National Community Child Health Database for 2011 at Local Health Board and Unitary Authority level
  • Update to Office for National Statistics (ONS) registered births and deaths data for 2011 at Local Health Board and Unitary Authority level

Release 11 - August 2012

  • Update to Immunisations indicators from the National Community Child Health Database for 2011/12

Release 10 - March 2012

  • Update to Office for National Statistics (ONS) registered births and deaths data for 2010
  • Cancer incidence data for 2010 – supplied by The Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit
  • The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2011 (WIMD) has been included.

Release 9 - December 2011 

  • Update to all hospital admissions data (PEDW) for 2009/10; 
  • 2010 data updates for sub unitary authority indicators from the National Community Child Health Database;

Release 8 - August 2011

  • Update to Births and Babies indicators from the National Community Child Health Database:
    • 2009 data revised for all indicators
    • 2010 data for all indicators at Local Health Board and Unitary Authority level
    • 2010 data for non-population based indicators at sub-Unitary Authority level
  • Update to Immunisations indicators from the National Community Child Health Database:
    • 2010 data for all indicators

 Release 7 - April 2011

  • Update to Office for National Statistics (ONS) registered births and deaths data for 2009
  • Cancer incidence data for 2009 – supplied by The Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit
  • Oral health of 12 year olds 2008-09 supplied by the Welsh Oral Health Information Unit

 Release 6 - November 2010

  • Update to all hospital admissions data (PEDW) for 2009/10; 
  • 2009 data updates for sub unitary authority indicators from the National Community Child Health Database;
  • New 'Alcohol-Specific' and 'Alcohol-Attributable' hospital admissions data; 
  • Lower super output area population data has been added to the Demography theme.
  • Re-run of all population based statistics due to the revisions to mid-year estimates 2002-2008 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
  • Revised ONS birth weight data for 2008 (ONS revised due to previous incorrect birth weight data).
  • Simplified, more user-friendly indicator names.

 Release 5 - August 2010

New look Health Maps Wales. Enhanced functionality with members area giving access to custom reporting tools, keyword search facility and colour mapping. National Community Child Health (NCCHD) immunisation indicators updated for 2009/10; NCCHD births data updated for 2009. New theme, Substance Misuse including alcohol-related deaths. A rural and urban classification of Wales has been added which can be viewed on a map or used to filter data to compare areas with same degree of rurality.

Release 4 - January 2010

 
Birth and Death registration data, and Cancer incidence data has been updated to include 2008 data. Existing indicators can now be viewed at the new Welsh Local Health Board Areas of Residence created as part of NHS reforms (Oct 2009).

Release 3 - October 2009

 
Dental and oral health indicators supplied by the Welsh Oral Health Information Unit (WOHIU) have been added to Health Maps Wales in addition to 2008/09 data updates for hospital admission data and child health indicators. 

Release 2 - May 2009

 
This release includes data from new datasets such as the National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD) as well as the Annual Birth and Death Extracts. Further functionality such as correlation plots for certain indicators has been added and a "Find my area" search; the look and design of the tool has also very much improved.
New indicators include birth and baby information such as maternal age, breastfeeding and immunisation uptake rates; mortality rates for broad categories of disease; the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD 2008) and population density at a lower layer super output area  (LSOA). In order to maximise the amount of data available at these lower geographic levels, rates and counts for certain indicators are only shown at aggregated 2 or 3-year ranges, thus avoiding the issue of small numbers.
 
The method for calculating confidence intervals around all European standardised rates (EASRs) has been changed in this edition for both new and previous indicators using an alternative method proposed by Dobson et al (1991)*. This means that the figures for confidence intervals for previously published figures may differ slightly in this edition. The method has changed towards using the Dobson method for all age-standardised rates, as recommended by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) and outlined in this technical briefing.

Release 1 - January 2009

 
The first release of Health Maps Wales (January 2009) concentrated on data relating to hospital admissions from the Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) along with cancer incidence data from the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU). Indicators included hospital admission rates, waiting times for common procedures, length of hospital stay and cancer incidence rates from 2001 to 2008/09.
 
 

*Dobson AJ, Kuulasmaa K, Eberle E, Scherer J. Confidence intervals for weighted sums of Poisson parameters. Statistics in Medicine 1991;10:457-462.


Last updated: 14/06/2017