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August 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheets update:
- Recent trends in place of death. Including monthly data up to May 2022 or each CCG, available in Data view /Reports section
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care. Including trends in care home deaths up to May 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality for each local authority and England, in Data view /Reports section
July 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheets update
- Recent trends in place of death up to April 2022 for CCGs
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care up to April 2022 for local authorities and England
June 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheets update
- Recent trends in place of death up to March 2022 for CCGs
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care up to March 2022 for local authorities
New Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet
- Care home factsheet for England including trends in care home deaths up to March 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality
May 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheets update
- Recent trends in place of death up to February 2022 for CCGs
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care up to February 2022 for local authorities
April 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheets update
- Recent trends in place of death up to January 2022 for CCGs
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care up to January 2022 for local authorities
March 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet update
- Recent trends in place of death up to December 2021 for CCGs
New Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet
- Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care up to December 2021 for local authorities.
February 2022
Indicator updates
- The Mortality and Temporary Resident Care Home Deaths indicators have been updated to include 2020 data for England, strategic clinical network areas, sustainability and transformation partnerships, clinical commissioning groups, upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities and government office regions.
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet update
- Recent trends in place of death up to November 2021 for CCGs
January 2022
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet update
- Recent trends in place of death up to October 2021 for CCGs
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 update
- Recent trends in place of death up to September 2021 for CCGs
November 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet update
- Recent trends in place of death up to August 2021 for CCGs
October 2021
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet update
- Recent trends in place of death up to July 2021 for CCGs
September 2021
New Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
- Recent trends in place of death up to June 2021 for CCGs
Indicator updates
- 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
Indicator updates
- The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for local authorities.
July 2021
Indicator updates
- 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
Indicator updates
- 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.
