Health Survey for England (HSE)Health Surveys User Conference, 29th June 2016

presented by Clare McConnell

Background

• Government spending review

• Cuts to HSE required

• Informed by HSE 2013 consultation

• 2016/17 budget largely protected

Potential HSE savings

• Website development

• Reporting

• Core interview content

• Fieldwork

Website development

No development beyond 2016/17

Reporting

• Retain coverage of key regular topics

• Retain trends tables and population estimates

• Full dataset archived

• Reduce number/size of chapters

• Fewer tables

Core Interview Content

• HSCIC consultation and review of core

• HSCIC funded core increased by 5 minutes in 2016

• Full content retained for 2016 and 2017

• Cuts in 2018 and 2019 of between 2 to 4 minutes

Fieldwork

• Retain 10,000 sample for interview survey (8,000 adults and 2,000 children)

• No cuts to fieldwork for 2016 and 2017 surveys

• Reduce nurse visits to 80% of households interviewed for 2018 and 2019

• Drop child nurse visits in alternate years

Next steps

• Provide feedback today

• HSCIC will publish findings within 12 weeks