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Palliative and end of life care profiles: October 2022 data update

The profiles provide an overview of palliative and end of life care in England at various geographies.

Applies to England

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Palliative and end of life care profiles: October 2022 data update

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The update for October 2022 has been published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).

Place of death factsheets for clinical commissioning groups have been updated to include monthly provisional place of death for July 2022.

Care home factsheets for England, counties and unitary authorities have been updated to include trends in care home deaths to July 2022.

An issue has been identified with the data used to produce the care homes factsheets and place of death factsheets. This has resulted in an undercount of deaths reported for July 2022. Further updates have been suspended while this issue is being investigated.

The palliative and end of life care profiles are presented in an interactive tool which aims to help local government and health services improve care at the end of life.

Published 4 October 2022
Last updated 21 November 2022 + show all updates
  1. Added the following text to the landing page 'An issue has been identified with the data used to produce the care homes factsheets and place of death factsheets. This has resulted in an undercount of deaths reported for July 2022. Further updates have been suspended while this issue is being investigated'.

  2. First published.