The Health Survey for England 2022 to 2025
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Health Survey for England 2022 to 2025 - pilot and main stage studies
IRAS ID
300275
Contact name
Jennifer Mindell
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NatCen Social Research
Duration of Study in the UK
5 years, 8 months, 0 days
Research summary
The Health Survey for England (HSE) is part of a programme of surveys commissioned by NHS Digital. HSE has been conducted since 1994 by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of NatCen Social Research (NatCen) and the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. The study provides information that cannot be obtained from other sources about the public’s health and many factors that affect health. The HSE monitors trends in the nation’s health, estimating the proportion of people in England with certain health conditions and how common certain risk factors and combinations of risk factors are, and monitors progress towards selected health targets.
HSE 2022, HSE 2023, HSE 2024, and HSE 2025 (referred to as HSE 2022-2025 hereafter) will each include a new, general population sample of around 8,000 adults (aged 16 and over) and 2,000 children (aged 0-15), representative of the general population. Participants will be recruited from January to December each year from everyone living at randomly selected private addresses in England.
After an advance letter is sent to the address, an interviewer will visit to ask people living at that address to take part in the survey. Some who agree will also be visited afterwards by a nurse.
The interview asks about the household, then individuals are asked about their general health and health risk factors. Additional modules vary each year.Depending on the participant's age, measurements are taken of height, weight, waist and hip circumference, and blood pressure; a saliva or urine sample collected; and blood samples taken with consent, for laboratory analysis.
Core modules for HSE 2022-25 and additional modules for HSE 2022 are specified in this application. In HSE 2022, a sample of HSE participants aged 16-49y will also be invited to take part in the Human Biomonitoring sub-study.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/EM/0144
Date of REC Opinion
15 Jul 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion