Standing view · health · North West Leicestershire
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in North West Leicestershire have been improving, and all three readings agree. Adults who are obese was 25.32 in 2024/25, adults who smoke 7.38 in 2024, and the suicide rate, per 100,000 8.7 across 2022 to 2024, every one of those recorded as favourable against the usual pattern. Three measures from three different parts of the health picture moving the same way, with nothing running against them, is a consistent set, though each contributes a single reading rather than a run, which is why the view is held as established.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about North West Leicestershire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who are obese | 2024/25 | improving |
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | improving |