Public Health Annual Report

Read the annual report to find out how Liverpool is improving health and reducing inequalities.

The Annual Report of the Director of Public Health supports planning and decision-making to improve health in the city. It's used alongside the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

2025 annual report

The report highlights how public health services are being transformed to better meet community needs. It explores efforts to reduce deprivation, address emerging public health issues and reduce long-standing health gaps. Since April 2020, changes have aimed to improve quality, enhance access and target support where it is needed most. It showcases progress across services including the 0–19 Healthy Child Programme, Liv Life weight management, Stop Smoking, all‑age drug and alcohol support, sexual health services, and the Community IPC Service.

Read the 2025 annual report — Innovating for Impact

• Public Health Annual Report 2025: Innovating for Impact (PDF)

  Download this document: Public Health Annual Report 2025: Innovating for Impact (PDF) (PDF: 3.8 MB)

Previous reports

• Public Health Annual Report 2024 — Fairer, Healthier, Stronger for all
• Public Health Annual Report 2023 — Culture and Communities
• Public Health Annual Report 2022 — Living safely and fairly with Covid-19

• Public Health Annual Report 2024: Fairer, Healthier, Stronger for all (PDF)

  Download this document: Public Health Annual Report 2024: Fairer, Healthier, Stronger for all (PDF) (PDF: 3.8 MB)

• Public Health Annual Report 2022: Living safely and fairly with Covid-19 (PDF)

  Download this document: Public Health Annual Report 2022: Living safely and fairly with Covid-19 (PDF) (PDF: 1011 KB)

• Public Health Annual Report 2021: Liverpool's Journey through 2021 (PDF)

  Download this document: Public Health Annual Report 2021: Liverpool's Journey through 2021 (PDF) (PDF: 7.5 MB)

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• Public Health Annual Report 2020: Liverpool's Covid-19 Journey (PDF)

  Download this document: Public Health Annual Report 2020: Liverpool's Covid-19 Journey (PDF) (PDF: 6 MB)

  This report tells the story of the pandemic in Liverpool, makes recommendations for improvement in the future and highlights the local impacts of Covid-19.

  First published: 29/03/2021

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• Public Health Annual Report 2019: We Mind The Gap (PDF)

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  The focus of the 2019 annual report are the health inequalities that exist within Liverpool in comparison with England.

  First published: 29/03/2019

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• Public Health Annual Report 2019: Recommendations and actions (PDF)

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  Our 2019 PHAR focused on health inequalities, setting out 13 recommendations to take a whole city approach to prioritising and tackling this important issue that is intrinsically linked to the social determinants of health. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened pre-existing inequalities, many of which have influenced the unequal impacts of COVID-19 in the first place.

  First published: 18/05/2021

• Public Health Annual Report 2018: Our Health Protection Challenges (PDF)

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  The 2018 annual report is a review of our top health protection challenges for Liverpool.

  First published: 29/03/2018

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• Public Health Annual Report 2017: The Impact of Austerity on Health and Wellbeing (PDF)

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  The focus of the 2017 annual report is a review of the health impacts of austerity and welfare reform measures have had on our residents.

  First published: 29/03/2017

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