Administrative healthcare services

Tender description

Public Health England (PHE), referred to herein as the ‘Authority’, provides strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation's health. Its ambition is to lead nationally, and enable locally, a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England, regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills. PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health. It is a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner. The Authority is seeking an academic organisation to produce 3 annual estimates for England and for each local authority of dependent alcohol use and other levels of alcohol consumption (along with relevant sub-populations) and also Opiate and/or Crack Cocaine use using available administrative and survey datasets. The Authority is seeking an academic organisation to produce 3 annual estimates for England and for each local authority of dependent alcohol use and other levels of alcohol consumption (along with relevant sub-populations) using available administrative and survey datasets. The Authority is seeking an academic organisation to produce annual estimates for each local authority of opiate and/or crack cocaine use (along with relevant sub-populations) using available administrative datasets. Appendix 1 lists the data sources which are currently available for use for the project (i.e., that The Authority holds or can facilitate access to).