West Neighbourhood
Trafford's West neighbourhood consists of 5 wards: Bucklow-St Martins, Davyhulme East, Davyhulme West, Flixton, and Urmston.
Summary
The West neighbourhood is an area where worse health outcomes are mostly concentrated within the ward of Bucklow-St Martins. There is a clear link between worse health outcomes and higher levels of deprivation, as the ward of Urmston also shows worse outcomes, whilst being an area with pockets of high deprivation levels (within the context of the neighbourhood).
- Child excess weight data shows that the prevalence of overweight and obesity is higher in the West neighbourhood when compared to the Trafford average; mostly driven by high prevalence in Bucklow-St Martins.
- National and local 21/22 data suggests increasing trends in child excess weight.
- For the ward of Bucklow-St Martins, Under 25 emergency hospital admissions are much higher than the Trafford average.
- There is a large gap in male and female life expectancy for the wards of Urmston and Bucklow-St Martins.
- Compared to England, lung cancer incidence is statically higher for each of the wards.
- For the ward of Bucklow-St Martins, lung cancer incidence is markedly higher than the Trafford average.
- For the wards of Bucklow-St Martins & Urmston, all age and premature mortality from cause-specific conditions is noticeably higher than the Trafford average.