Lambeth Borough: A Comprehensive Report on Demographics and Healthcare

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Lambeth Borough, an outer London borough with a diverse population exceeding 324,000 residents. It details the borough's demographics, including ethnic backgrounds and age distributions, highlighting the significant proportion of children living in poverty. The report examines healthcare provisions, including the NHS's role in stroke prevention and the local authority's efforts to monitor stroke registers and improve patient outcomes. It also discusses socioeconomic factors such as life expectancy, employment rates, housing affordability, and the prevalence of long-term illnesses and disabilities, including mental health concerns. The report underscores the borough's commitment to addressing inequalities, creating growth, and building sustainable communities, offering a detailed analysis of the challenges and priorities facing Lambeth and the services provided to its residents.

PROFILE
Lambeth Borough is an outer London borough that is situated in Central London. It covers the
area of Brexton, Clapham and Waterloo and provide its services to residents and businesses. The
services offered by Lambeth is social work, planning, housing and schools. Its area code is 020.
It has experienced rapid growth since 2011 census ( Greater London Authority 2019). people
from different ethnic backgrounds account for Borough's population that includes 39 % white
British, 2.5 percent Irish, 15.5 % other white people and rest are Asians, Africans,Indians,
Chinese, Arab etc. Currently, borough has over 324,000 residents. The population of people aged
under 17 years (62,632) , the population under 18-64 years (235,304) constitutes over 72 % of
borough's population, the population over 65 years (26,112) which is least among all the age
groups. The borough, divided into 21 wards, which boast many primary and secondary
schools,as well as colleges and universities. It also has university hospitals, clinics and heaklth
centres which provide social and health care services to the people.
Over 30% of children in Lambeth borough are living in poverty. this is higher than the London'
average of 27 % in poverty. The ranking show how this borough is performing on key poverty,
in comparison with all 32 London Boroughs. The general health of people in the Borough does
not compare favourably with many other London borough. There are priorities for Lambeth
borough in eradicating inequality by addressing them in order to provide job opportunities to
people, quality of life and also health equality. The other priority set by Lambeth is to create
growth by getting benefit from the investment and regeneration of the Borough and to build
strong and sustainable neighbourhoods to maintain safe, clean and cohesive communities across
the borough to increase cooperation and coordination. The borough has many other factors in
relation to life expectancy, employment and education attainment. Life expectancy for males
(78.4) and females (83.5)which is quite good and high in comparison to other borough. Life
expectancy for females in Lambeth is lower than London average by 10 months but higher than
England average by 5 months and life expectancy for man is lower in both the cases by 19 and
12 months. The premature mortality of Lambeth borough is higher in which female constitutes
(59.9%) and male constitutes (74.3 %). The index of inequality for males (+0.6) and for females
(+0.4%). Lambeth take advantage of UK's economy and with skilled work force have high
employment rate (81.9%). Housing price in London has increased tremendously. In Lambeth
borough the housing rate has increased from 6.4 % to 13.2 percent but has declined recently and

someone with salty of £70,000 can afford average house in Lambeth. Most people are renting
privately into middle age. The affordability of housing ownership for the first time is
unaffordable to anyone who have middle class income. The median income of this borough is
£26000 and crystal area s cheapest area of Lambeth. About 37000 people in of person in
Lambeth borough are exposed to long tern illness or disability. Over 50 years of age constitutes
(60%), 50-64 (12%), 64-74 (27%), 75-84 (46%) and over 85 (64%). In this 7 % have long term
illness and 5% have disability. In this issues most of the people are common mental disorder
which includes depression as well. The other diseases are mental and physical disabilities etc.
the pregnancy and maternity is reducing by 0.4 %, from 4,800 to 4,600. The estimate residents
pregnant or on maternity leave is between 6000-9000. Sexual orientation and gender identity
constitutes 4 percent of respondents that identified themselves as lesbians, gays, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT). Around 40% of Lambeth population is white with a UK background. White
people make up 55% of the population. Around 40% of Lambeth residents are White British or
Irish, in line with inner London (43%)23. 15% of the population are from other white
backgrounds – around 47,000 people. About two thirds of these people are from Europe outside
UK & Ireland. 8% are from Central and South America, 4% from North America and the
Caribbean, and 8% from Australasia. These boroughs have both a large number of different
ethnic groups in the population, as well as a large proportion of Black, Asian and Minority
Ethnic (BAME) people. Lambeth has a high proportion of people from non-White British ethnic
groups, but fewer groups are represented than in the most diverse boroughs. Around 150
different languages are spoken families in the borough. Around 17,000 people (6% of the
population) speak a main language other than English, mostly EU and African languages. The
most common languages are English, Portuguese, Spanish, Somali, French, Akan, Arabic and
Bengali. The residents of Lambeth have residents all over the world in which 60 % of residents
are from UK. There are 117,000 Lambeth residents born outside UK, which is 38% of the
population. In Lambeth borough 60 % of residents have religion whereas 28 % have no religion .
Christians (53%) and Muslims (7%) are largest group of residents as per religion.
ISSUE
Provision of care in the borough is intended to prevent stroke and improve outcomes and
conditions of stroke patients. There are NHS (National Health Services) for checking health of
individuals in identifying people with stroke risk factors. This enables evidence- based

treatments and lifestyle advice to be properly considered. The local authority has made it a
priority to see and ensure that stroke registers are made by GPs and are monitored on a regular
basis and to check that if they are up to date or not. Also, stroke care in the borough include
identifying adults with sign of strokes at early stage can prevent them and they can be treated
with primary care. It needs to be detected at early stage so that the borough can decrease the rate
of strokes and can maintain mortality rate as well as minimise illness of the individuals and take
corrective actions to measure it and cure them to give them quality life and to increase their
stamina and provide them with heakthy life.
PROVISIONS