National Centre for Social Research

The Health Survey for England, sponsored by the Department of Health, is a series of annual surveys about the health of people in England. The Health Survey was first proposed in 1990 to improve information on morbidity by the (then) newly created Central Health Monitoring Unit within the Department of Health. This information is used to underpin and improve targeting of nationwide health policies.

The survey was carried out in 1991-1993 by the Office for Population Censuses and Surveys which is now part of the Office for National Statistics. From 1994 onwards the survey has been carried out by the National Centre for Social Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.

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