ESTIMATING HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is the national NHS data warehouse for hospital care, which is update yearly with more than 12 million episodes. In the following sections Mosaic uk types have been coded to HES data on emergency, alcohol and drug, mental health and teenage pregnancy.
Total hospital admissions are typically associated with deprived areas with many families with young children, young people or elderly. With the local composition of Mosaic Types we would in Southwark expect to see many hospitalisations from residents in the especially Dignified Dependency and Low Income Elderly Types.
The following table shows the hospital admission risk estimate by Mosaic UK types in Southwark. The values are calculated using the index described in the profiling section. For each postcode type is also reported the rank of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (1= most deprived; 0=least deprived). Shading indicates association with the 20% most deprived areas in UK. [TOP]
Mosaic UK Type |
Household freq |
Household % |
HES Total admissions |
Description |
IMD |
Sharing a Staircase |
101 | 0.09 | 202 | Young children in mid-rise, walk-up council flats with poor social and housing conditions. | 1.000 |
| Dignified Dependency |
2143 | 1.88 | 201 | Settled older couples and pensioners with low income renting small flats and maisonettes | 0.950 |
Tower Block Living |
267 | 0.23 | 162 | Young people in public sector high rise tower blocks with high levels of deprivation | 0.983 |
Upper Floor Families |
210 | 0.18 | 159 | Low income young families with children in small, hard to let blocks of public sector purpose built flats | 0.900 |
Low Horizons |
92 | 0.08 | 151 | Tenants reliant on city councils for housing and transport, where few neighbours have bought their homes | 0.967 |
Families on Benefits |
19 | 0.02 | 144 | Disadvantaged families with children on very low incomes, typically living in low rise council estates | 0.917 |
Ex-industrial Legacy |
53 | 0.05 | 143 | Settled but poor older people in low-rise social housing, often found in declining industrial areas | 0.867 |
| South Asian Industry |
26 | 0.02 | 138 | Larger families, many of South Asian origin, in high-density terraces | 0.933 |
| Bedsit Beneficiaries |
69 | 0.06 | 136 | Childless couples and singles renting in city centres from private or public landlords | 0.850 |
Old People in Flats |
300 | 0.26 | 133 | Single pensioners in small, publicly rented flats, many of which were built for this age group. | 0.817 |
Low Income Elderly |
1240 | 1.09 | 131 | Elderly people living in low rise council housing, often on low incomes. | 0.667 |
