This interactive report shows the latest outcomes framework indicators for NHS and local authority organisations across Sussex.
There are currently 226 indicators in this report grouped into 12 domains. Some indicators have demographic breakdowns by age or sex; for example, life expectancy at birth is reported for males and females separately) and so will appear as multiple lines in the tables.
The two largest domains are further split into sub domains. Good infant and maternal health domain includes sub domains for infant mortality, maternal focus, and baby focus. Tackling major burdens domain is further split into sub domains for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory diseases.
You can use the navigation panel on the left to navigate down this page to the table containing the domain specific indicators.
Some of these indicators are CORE20Plus5 indicators and NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement (HIState) indicators. These are identified with in the domain tables throughout this report.
Data provided here are usually available for local authority geographies (East Sussex and West Sussex upper tier and Brighton and Hove unitary authorities, referred to as UTLAs) or for the equivalent Sub-ICB locations.
The tables in this report show one row per indicator with each area/organisation’s latest value, a comparison against England, a recent trend, and rankings among demographically similar peers and national ranks, displayed for a quick glance of the State of Sussex.
You can search for an indicator name in each table. For some indicators, there may be additional notes which users may find helpful when interpreting the values, particularly where there are one or more outliers of concern.
Where this is the case the indicator will have a purple note icon next to it; hover of this to find out more. I am an informative tooltip
An explainer table is given below and a table key ‘reading the icons’ is available on the bottom left of the page.
The first icon, a circle under the latest value, shows whether the latest value is statistically different compared to the England value for the same time period. A green circle () shows the value is significantly better than England, a red circle () shows significantly worse than the England value and a yellow circle () shows that the value is not statistically significantly different to England. In some cases, a higher or lower value is not considered good or bad. For these, we use a dark green circle () to show significantly higher values, and light green circle () to show lower values.
The second icon shows an arrow for the trend of the latest value, where data is available, with the direction and colour denoting improvement over time (green arrow, either or ), getting worse over time (red arrow, either or ) or with no change (grey arrow, ). A grey dash () denotes no comparison available. Again, where there is no polarity value (e.g. going up isn’t good or bad) the arrow is purple, either or ).
In some cases there are no data at all for either a trend or comparison or the latest value. This could be because of missing data, or a data quality issue meaning that the value has not been published. Where this is the case, the table will show a grey dash icon ().
For rankings, each area type is compared with demographically similar peers as well as areas across the whole of England. There is one icon next to the rank which is coloured light blue () if the area is among the top 25% of areas, and dark blue () if it is in the bottom 25% of areas (with light grey () showing it is ranked somewhere in the middle).
A table listing the peers for each area are given at the bottom of this report. Go to peer list
For ICBs, there are up to six peers, SICBLs are compared with up to 11 peers and UTLAs are compared with up to 16 peers. As at July 2025, there 42 ICBs, 106 SICBLs, and 153 UTLAs and our areas are ranked amongst these respective areas.
In cases where two areas have the same value (tied values), these are both given the highest (closest to 1st/best) rank. The grouping of areas into quartiles ignores ties and so some areas with the same score may be placed in two different quartiles.
In this report, we talk about ‘outliers of concern’ as being any value which is either significantly worse than the England value (denoted with a ), OR if the value is in the bottom quartile nationally (denoted by a ).
In addition to using the term value of concern, we also detail ‘indicators of concern’. These are indicators with at least one area/organisation that has a value of concern.
There are a few things to remember when interpreting these outliers/indicators of concern;
An area/organisation is only counted once as having a value of concern for an indicator; even if it is worse than England AND is in the bottom quartile nationally.
An indicator might have a value of concern for just one of the local areas but overall at Sussex ICB level, the value may be similar to or better than England.
In some cases, a high or low value is not considered better or worse (as is the case for four indicators; Patients with Asthma (6-19 yrs): Second-hand smoking status recorded in the last 12 months, percentage of patients with an asthma or COPD review review in last 12 months, and the number of people diagnosed with cancer as an emergency presentation). These are not included in the value of concern calculation.
Peers are not used for the calculation of outliers of concern because the number of comparators can be very small.
There are a total of 226 indicators. Of these, 73 are indicators of concern; that is indicators with at least one area with an outlier value of concern. This is 32.3% of indicators.
For five indicators, every area had an outlier value of concern. These were; the proportion of estimated eligible population offered an NHS Health Check, Cholesterol: QRISK >= 20% treated with LLT, Proportion of those with Atrial Fibrillation treated with anticoagulants, proportion of current smokers offered support/treatment, and the uptake of physical health checks among those diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness (SMI).
The table below shows the number of indicators in each domain, as well as the number of indicators with at least one outlier value of concern.
Use the check boxes below to show/hide indicators with at least one area which has an outlier of concern.
Overarching indicators include life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, and the social inequality gap in life expectancy across. All of these indicators are for UTLAs and the Sussex ICB footprint overall.
Good Infant and Maternal Health include infant mortality rates, maternity bookings, specialist perinatal measures and also baby weights and preterm births.
There are 11 indicators in this domain.
Strong Foundations for Health include readiness for school measures, uptake of childhood immunisations, healthy weight prevalence, special education needs and attainment scores and tooth extractions.
There are 32 indicators in this domain.
The Tackling Childhood Long Term Conditions domain has seven indicators. This includes hospital admissions and treatment for asthma, access to epilepsy services and diabetes patient annual health checks. It also includes any emergency admissions for under 18s. Some of these indicators are CORE20Plus5 indicators and NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with CORE20Plus5 and HIState in the tables.
The majority of indicators are for the local authority geographies, with the exception of second-hand smoking status among patients with asthma aged 6-19 years which is available for the ICB and sub ICB locations. The sub ICB location values are given in a separate table.
Mental Health Support indicators primarily focus on young people’s access to mental health services, children and young people with eating disorders, hospital admissions for self harm, and measures of transitions from children’s to adult’s services.
Some of these indicators are CORE20Plus5 indicators and NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with CORE20Plus5 and HIState labels in the tables.
The Core Determinants domain is the first indicator in the Working Age section of the Sussex Population Outcomes Framework. These domains represent wider determinants and increasing challenges for population health.
This includes the Local Health Index, measures of employment, homelessness, fuel poverty, air pollution, and active travel.
The increasing burdens domain focuses on obesity prevalence and management of diabetes among adults. Some of these indicators are NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with HIState labels in the tables.
Data for amputations of minor and major limbs are available at Sub ICB location geographies and as such are given in a second table.
This domain features admission episodes for alcohol specific conditions, and alcohol misuse treatment services.
The Tackling Major burdens of ill health and premature mortality is the biggest domain and is split into three sub domains; cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer. For each of these condition subgroups there are measures for premature mortality, detection and diagnosis, access to services and stage of presentation.
Some of these indicators are CORE20Plus5 indicators and NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with CORE20Plus5 and HIState labels in the tables.
The Improving Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing indicators domain explores self-reported wellbeing, and a range of measures of health experiences of those with severe mental illness. It also includes drug related deaths and suicide rates, and rates of detentions under the Mental Health Act.
Some of these indicators are CORE20Plus5 indicators and NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with CORE20Plus5 and HIState labels in the tables.
The Maintaining Health and Mobility is part of the Active Ageing and Later Life section of the Sussex Population Outcomes Framework.
Indicators include adult physical activity and inactivity prevalence estimates, emergency hospital admissions due to falls, assessment and management of osteoporosis, and readmissions following hip replacement surgery.
The Care and Support indicators include measures of self-reported quality of life, confidence, and feeling supported for managing long term conditions. It also includes social prescribing referral rates, diagnosis rates for dementia.
The final domain is inclusive elective. This explores measures around treatment waiting times, reducing did not attend rates, improving access to diagnostics services and measures of elective activity trends over time particularly looking at pre- and post- COVID-19 pandemic.
Some of these indicators are NHS Health Inequalities 2024 Statement indicators. These are identified with HIState labels in the tables.
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Other data sources include: CYP Transformation Programme Dashboard, National Diabetes Audit (NDA) NHS England Digital, Model Hospital, Mental Health Act Statistics, Learning disability services monthly statistics from the Assuring Transformation dataset, Network Contract DES, CVDPREVENT, Young People with Type 2 Diabetes NHS England Digital, Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Cancer Waiting Times Database, NHS England: monthly RTT data collection, NHS England: DM01, collected via SDCS, CYP Elective Recovery Dashboard
A full list of data sources will be made available as a separate metadata file.
Each area is compared with a areas that are demographically similar. This means that Brighton and Hove (UTLA) is compared with a different set of areas to East Sussex (UTLA). The table below shows which areas each of our geographies are compared to.