These profiles have been developed by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) to improve the availability and accessibility of information and intelligence around palliative and end of life care. They 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. These include:
- place of death
- underlying cause of death
- mortality
- death in usual place of residence (DiUPR)
- care homes and community
- hospital care
- dementia
Classification of place of death is a guide that supports the methods used for all place of death indicators on these profiles.
Factsheets
Place of death
Place of death factsheets for CCGs
This factsheet provides the most recent data available on trends in place of death at CCG level during the COVID-19 pandemic and compares this with the pattern seen in 2019 as a baseline.
It compares CCG and England data from 2019 to 2021 for the number and percentage of deaths in hospitals (acute or community, not psychiatric); at home; in care homes; in hospices (not community), and ‘other places’.
Place of death factsheet webinar
This gives an introduction to the key features and functionality of the factsheet and covers the following:
- why a factsheet?
- what value do the factsheets have?
- contents of the factsheet
- a guided tour through all the figures and the table provided
- guidance on using Fingertips
- a question and answer session
Resource directory
This directory of intelligence and guidance supports the data in these profiles. These cover the following themes:
This will be updated quarterly.
The National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the content expressed within them.
Atlas of variation for palliative and end of life care
The Atlas of variation for palliative and end of life care pdfs are located in the ‘Themed Atlas’ section. They contain 29 indicators on the quality of care in hospitals, services and in the community.
A supporting NHS Interactive Atlas version enables organisations to view the data at a local level and see where they sit within the national landscape or within their peer groups. The Atlas includes maps, charts, time series data and associated statistics across all the indicators.
Contact us
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Send feedback and questions to neolcin@phe.gov.uk
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Recent updates
December 2021
Indicator updates
The Place of death and Cause of death indicators have been updated to include 2020 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, clinical commissioning groups, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
Care home beds per 100 per people age 75+, Nursing home beds per 100 per people age 75+ have been updated to include 2021 data for strategic clinical networks, and clinical commissioning groups.
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to September 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
November 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to August 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
October 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to July 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
September 2021
New Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to June 2021) for each CCG are newly available in Data view /Reports section
Care home beds per 100 per people age 75+, Nursing home beds per 100 per people age 75+ have been updated to include 2021 data for England, strategic clinical networks, local authorities and government regions.
The temporary resident in care home, percentage of all deaths in care home indicator has been updated using a revised methodology and now comprises 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks, local authorities and government regions. The new methodology has resulted in a data shift for some areas.
August 2021
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for local authorities.
July 2021
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks and government regions.
June 2021
The percentage of deaths with three or more emergency admissions indicators have been updated with 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks and NHS regions.
November 2020
The Place of death and Cause of death indicators have been updated to include 2019 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, clinical commissioning groups, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
September 2020
The care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate indicators have been updated to include 2020 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
March 2020
A new domain 'Hospital Care' has been published with the new indicator 'Percentage of deaths with three or more emergency admissions in the last three months of life'. This indicator contains data for 2015-2018 for the following geographies: England, CCGs, NHS England local offices, STPs and SCNs.
February 2020
The Mortality domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. The cause of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, and SCN geographical areas.
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate has been updated to include 2019 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas.
November 2019
The place of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. The cause of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, and SCN geographical areas.
October 2019
The temporary care home residents indicator located within the care homes and community domain has been updated and now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas
September 2019
New Resource Directory. This contains intelligence and guidance to support these profiles.
July 2019
The death in usual place of residence domain now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG and SCN geographical areas.
May 2019
Place of death, cause of death and the mortality domains now include data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. These updates are accompanied by revisions to the metadata guide.
The “Care home use at end of life” domain has been renamed and is now called “Care homes and community”. The indicator "Palliative/supportive care: QOF Prevalence all ages" (found in the National General Practice Profiles) has been linked to the care homes and community domain.
February 2019
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate has been updated to include 2018 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
November 2018
Temporary resident care home deaths has been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas.
July 2018
Death in usual place of residence domain has been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
Amendments have been made to area classification of data in all years to align with current definitions, this has resulted in some small changes to published data, most notably:
- data for SCNs in particular Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire SCN and Northern England SCN
- data for CCGs (2017/18 configuration) in particular NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG and NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
An error has been identified in the local authority data for “DIUPR – Respiratory disease (%), Persons, All Ages” for 2015 only. These values have now been corrected.
Extra functionality has been added to the profile in all domains to:
- provide information on inequalities
- compare indicators in a scatter plot
- analyse recent trends
- show the distribution of values for each indicator nationally or regionally as a ‘boxplot’
February 2018
Cause of death and place of death domains have been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, County, Unitary Authority and District geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
January 2018
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate were updated to include 2017 data.
December 2017
Cause of death and place of death domains have been updated to include data for 2016 for England, Government Office Region, STP, SCN and CCG geographical areas.
Recent updates
December 2021
Indicator updates
The Place of death and Cause of death indicators have been updated to include 2020 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, clinical commissioning groups, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
Care home beds per 100 per people age 75+, Nursing home beds per 100 per people age 75+ have been updated to include 2021 data for strategic clinical networks, and clinical commissioning groups.
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to September 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
November 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to August 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
October 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to July 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
September 2021
New Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to June 2021) for each CCG are newly available in Data view /Reports section
Care home beds per 100 per people age 75+, Nursing home beds per 100 per people age 75+ have been updated to include 2021 data for England, strategic clinical networks, local authorities and government regions.
The temporary resident in care home, percentage of all deaths in care home indicator has been updated using a revised methodology and now comprises 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks, local authorities and government regions. The new methodology has resulted in a data shift for some areas.
August 2021
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for local authorities.
July 2021
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks and government regions.
June 2021
The percentage of deaths with three or more emergency admissions indicators have been updated with 2019 data for England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks and NHS regions.
November 2020
The Place of death and Cause of death indicators have been updated to include 2019 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, clinical commissioning groups, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
September 2020
The care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate indicators have been updated to include 2020 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
March 2020
A new domain 'Hospital Care' has been published with the new indicator 'Percentage of deaths with three or more emergency admissions in the last three months of life'. This indicator contains data for 2015-2018 for the following geographies: England, CCGs, NHS England local offices, STPs and SCNs.
February 2020
The Mortality domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. The cause of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, and SCN geographical areas.
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate has been updated to include 2019 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas.
November 2019
The place of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. The cause of death domain has been updated and now contains data for 2018 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, and SCN geographical areas.
October 2019
The temporary care home residents indicator located within the care homes and community domain has been updated and now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas
September 2019
New Resource Directory. This contains intelligence and guidance to support these profiles.
July 2019
The death in usual place of residence domain now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG and SCN geographical areas.
May 2019
Place of death, cause of death and the mortality domains now include data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. These updates are accompanied by revisions to the metadata guide.
The “Care home use at end of life” domain has been renamed and is now called “Care homes and community”. The indicator "Palliative/supportive care: QOF Prevalence all ages" (found in the National General Practice Profiles) has been linked to the care homes and community domain.
February 2019
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate has been updated to include 2018 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
November 2018
Temporary resident care home deaths has been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas.
July 2018
Death in usual place of residence domain has been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG, County, Unitary Authority, District and SCN geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
Amendments have been made to area classification of data in all years to align with current definitions, this has resulted in some small changes to published data, most notably:
- data for SCNs in particular Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire SCN and Northern England SCN
- data for CCGs (2017/18 configuration) in particular NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG and NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
An error has been identified in the local authority data for “DIUPR – Respiratory disease (%), Persons, All Ages” for 2015 only. These values have now been corrected.
Extra functionality has been added to the profile in all domains to:
- provide information on inequalities
- compare indicators in a scatter plot
- analyse recent trends
- show the distribution of values for each indicator nationally or regionally as a ‘boxplot’
February 2018
Cause of death and place of death domains have been updated to include 2016 data for England, Government Office Region, County, Unitary Authority and District geographical areas. A statistical commentary is available for this update.
January 2018
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate were updated to include 2017 data.
December 2017
Cause of death and place of death domains have been updated to include data for 2016 for England, Government Office Region, STP, SCN and CCG geographical areas.