4  Inclusion Health

Inclusion health is an umbrella term used to describe people who are socially excluded, who typically experience multiple interacting risk factors for poor health, such as stigma, discrimination, poverty, violence, and complex trauma.

NHS England National Framework for NHS action on inclusion health

Finding these groups in data can be particularly difficult. Groups include:

4.1 Postcodes

4.1.1 England

Homelessness and no fixed abode have implications for commissioning under usual place of residence but also for health inequality analysis. The guidance for commissioner assignment.

Some data may have the postcode from the main site of the provider delivering care instead of an agreed postcode such as ZZ99 3VZ for No Fixed Abode or Address not known should be ZZ99 3WZ.

Note that some ZZ postcodes will related to unspecified UK country codes:

  • England UK – not specified - Z99 3CZ
  • Wales - ZZ99 3GZ
  • Scotland - ZZ99 1WZ
  • Northern Ireland - ZZ99 2WZ

The Data Dictionary for Postcode of Usual Address that refers to these postcodes is now archived.

4.1.2 Scotland

According to NHS Tayside if a person has no fixed address it is classified as NF1 1AB.

4.1.3 Wales

The Data dictionary is distinct for NHS Wales.

4.2 Public Health / Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

South East Clinical Delivery and Networkswebinars 2023-2024 and datapacks.

Spotlight tool collates and presents key statistics related to the public health outcomes of Inclusion health groups across the following themes: access to and utilisation of health care; preventative care; health outcomes; and wider determinants of health.

4.3 Networks

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