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:
Classification of place of death is a guide that supports the methods used for all place of death indicators on these profiles.
Care home factsheets for UTLAs
These factsheets available for each upper tier local authority include trends in care home deaths and data on care home bed availability by service speciality.
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 slides
This gives an introduction to the key features and functionality of the factsheet.
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.
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.
Find more resources and information from the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network about Palliative and end of life care on .GOV.UK web pages.
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Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019 to 2022 (up to February 2022) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to February 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019 to 2022 (up to January 2022) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to January 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
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 December 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to December 2021 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
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: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to November 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
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 October 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
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
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
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
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.
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for local authorities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
New Resource Directory. This contains intelligence and guidance to support these profiles.
The death in usual place of residence domain now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG and SCN geographical areas.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate were updated to include 2017 data.
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.
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Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019 to 2022 (up to February 2022) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to February 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019 to 2022 (up to January 2022) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to January 2022 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
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 December 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
Palliative and End of Life Care factsheet: Recent trends of deaths in care homes and provision of care
New publication of factsheets for each upper tier local authority including trends in care home deaths up to December 2021 and data on care home bed availability by service speciality. Available in Data view /Reports section
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: Recent trends in place of death
Updated factsheets describing place of death by month for 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to November 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
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 October 2021) for each CCG are available in Data view /Reports section
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
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
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
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.
The directly age standardised mortality rates and the percentage of all deaths indicators have been updated with 2019 data for local authorities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
New Resource Directory. This contains intelligence and guidance to support these profiles.
The death in usual place of residence domain now includes data for 2017 for England, Government Office Region, STP, CCG and SCN geographical areas.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
Care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate were updated to include 2017 data.
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.
