End of life care

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Guidance and regulation

1. PHE data and analysis tools
   • Detailed guide
   • 6 March 2020
   • Public Health England
2. Care homes: infection prevention and control
   • Guidance
   • 18 February 2013
   • Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England
3. Health economics: a guide for public health teams
   • Detailed guide
   • 9 July 2020
   • Public Health England
4. Influenza-like illness (ILI): managing outbreaks in care homes
   • Guidance
   • 15 October 2018
   • Public Health England
5. Classification of place of death
   • Guidance
   • 1 March 2019
   • Public Health England

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News and communications

5 July 2016 — News story

Government commits to high quality end of life care

Department of Health and Social Care

1. Improving palliative care data collection and end of life care co-ordination
   • 25 September 2015
   • Public Health England
   • News story
2. £800,000 for social action projects that support people at end of life
   • 27 December 2014
   • Cabinet Office
   • Press release
3. £1 million fund to support people at end of life
   • 2 October 2014
   • Cabinet Office
   • News story
4. Expanding choice and improving the quality of end of life care
   • 1 July 2014
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Palliative and end of life care profiles: March 2020 data update
   • 3 March 2020
   • Public Health England
   • Official statistics
2. Emergency admissions in the 3 months before death
   • 3 March 2020
   • Public Health England
   • Research
3. Older people’s hospital admissions in the last year of life
   • 25 February 2020
   • Public Health England
   • Research
4. Palliative and end of life care profiles: February 2020 data update
   • 4 February 2020
   • Public Health England
   • Official statistics
5. Palliative and end of life care profiles: November 2019 data update
   • 5 November 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Choice in end of life care: government response
   • 5 July 2016
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
2. NHS Outcomes Framework 2016 to 2017
   • 1 April 2016
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
3. End of life care: response to Health Select Committee’s report
   • 15 October 2015
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
4. Improvements to care in the last days and hours of life
   • 13 August 2015
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
5. 2010 to 2015 government policy: end of life care
   • 8 May 2015
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper

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Organisations

1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. Public Health England
3. Cabinet Office
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office