Even in the years before COVID, the health of our local population changed, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Health in East Cambridgeshire is in the top 20 per cent for England. But it decreased in the year before the pandemic, with a Health Index score of 106.0. That’s down 1.9 points on the previous year.

Our area is ranked 61st most healthy out of 307 local authority areas in England, according to newly released data from 2019. But our health scores vary significantly for different aspects of health, with higher scores for physical and economic aspects, and much lower scores for access to services and green space, personal wellbeing and mental health.

Lots more detail at the Office for National Statistics interactive web page – choose East Cambridgeshire (or anywhere else you like!) from the drop-down menu.