The LHO provides information that policy makers and practitioners need to improve health and health care. We work in partnership with the NHS, local authorities, the GLA, researchers and national agencies. We support the development of health intelligence professionals. The LHO takes the national lead in monitoring health inequalities, ethnicity and health and tobacco.

The public health observatories celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2010, having been established following the white paper Saving lives: our healthier nation. Click here to see how the LHO is marking the occasion.

LHO provides a wide range of key services to support health and health care practitioners in their day-to-day work in the Capital. We analyse a wide range of health-related data. We run training programmes and produce a monthly, online newsletter.

The LHO provides several enquiry services. If you can’t find the information you are looking for please contact LHO or call 020 7685 6774.

If you have a specific query about hospital inpatient data you may request data analysis from the Hospital Episode Statistics via the HES request form.