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3.3.3.2 Health, Social and Economic Outcomes Benchmarking: A Tale of Three
Cities
A comparative analysis of Hull City against York and Sheffield as benchmarks and
national performance was conducted early in 2009. A wide range of data, produced in
partnership with the local authority and voluntary sector colleagues, were analysed, and
selected indicators used to benchmark health needs status, healthcare performance,
priority health outcomes and economic, housing and educational factors relating to
health. The analyses were helped to reach a wide audience by being produced as both
a standard report and an illustrated presentation using PowerPoint (available on
request; for contact details see page 2).
3.3.3.3 General Practice Groupings
The general practices in Hull differ with regard to their registered population in terms of
deprivation and age of patients. Whilst general practices can be compared, it is better
and easier to try to compare like-with-like. As a result, the general practices in Hull have
been grouped according to the average deprivation score of their patients and the
average age of their patients 2 . The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 has been used to
measure deprivation (see section 6.9.1 on page 131 for more information). Nationally,
a deprivation score has been assigned to each of the 163 lower layer super output areas
(LLSOAs) within Hull. On average, 1,500 residents live in each LLSOA in Hull (although
with population changes to some areas, such as Kings Park, the number of residents is
higher). A deprivation score has been determined for each registered patient based on
their postcode (and their LLSOA). There is an assumption that the average deprivation
score for the LLSOA is representative for each registered patient and this might not be
the case (the patients registered at a specific practice may be more deprived than the
average for their area – see section 6.9.1.2 on page 134 for more information).
Table 28 gives the mean age of the patients registered with each practice (as at April
2010). The deprivation scores are given in Table 49 should be used as a guide to the
level of deprivation within each practice. Figure 4 gives the mean deprivation score and
mean age of the registered patients for each practice (as at April 2010). Table 4 gives
the assigned groups for each practice based on the deprivation score and mean age of
their registered patients.
2 Theoretically it is possible to group practices using more characteristics than deprivation and age,
however, as the number of characteristics increase, in practice, it becomes much more difficult to group
the practices into similar groups.
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