Palliative and End of Life Care Profiles

The goal of these profiles is to improve the availability and accessibility of information and intelligence around palliative and end of life care. The profiles provide an overview across multiple geographies in England to support commissioning and planning of local services.

The data in the profiles are grouped into topics, including:

  • needs assessment 
  • care homes and community
  • hospital care
  • place of death
  • mortality
  • dementia
  • underlying cause of death

The Fingertips guidance offers information on how to use the profiles. The palliative and end of life care profiles have been developed by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) which also publishes palliative and end of life care reports and bulletins on GOV.UK.

Planned changes to the profile

In the  August 2025 update to the Palliative and end of life care profile we will make the following changes

  • removal of the underlying cause of death topic and all the indicators it contains
  • removal of all indicators in the mortality topic
  • addition of 12 standardised mortality rates to the mortality topic 

To comment on these changes please contact neolcin@dhsc.gov.uk

Reason for change

We are removing indicators that have become methodologically obsolete. The changes are consistent with wider Fingertips data as the newly included indicators are a subset of those published on the Mortality profile.

Details of affected indicators

A complete list of changes is in the detailed change notice.

More information

Statistical commentaries

The most recent commentaries on indicator updates to the Palliative and end of life care profile are:

Factsheets

Go to the factsheets on patterns of care, care homes and place of death.

Resource directory

Go to the resource directory page for more intelligence and guidance. 

Contact us

For enquiries or feedback relating to the palliative and end of life care pages, email neolcin@dhsc.gov.uk 

Updates

Dates for updates to the profile will be announced on the GOV.UK statistical release calendar.

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