Changes to the Palliative and end of life care profile August 2025

The August 2025 update to the Palliative and end of life care profile 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.

Indicators to be added

These indicators will be added to the mortality topic:

• 93823 Mortality rate from all causes, all ages
• 93954 Mortality rate for deaths due to COVID-19, all ages
• 93959 Mortality rate from cancer, all ages
• 93956 Mortality rate from cardiovascular disease, all ages
• 93967 Mortality rate from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, all ages
• 93962 Mortality rate from liver disease, all ages
• 93963 Mortality rate from respiratory disease, all ages
• 93827 Mortality rate for deaths involving COVID-19, all ages
• 94069 Mortality rate for deaths involving dementia and Alzheimer's disease, all ages
• 93995 Mortality rate for deaths involving diabetes, all ages
• 94068 Mortality rate for deaths involving hypertensive disease, all ages
• 94070 Mortality rate for deaths involving influenza and pneumonia, all ages

Indicators to be removed

These indicators will be removed from the mortality topic

• 93507 Mortality Rate
• 93506 Percentage of all Deaths

These indicators will be removed from the underlying cause of death topic

• 93497 Percentage of deaths with underlying cause Cancer
• 93499 Percentage of deaths with underlying cause circulatory disease
• 93498 Percentage of deaths with underlying cause respiratory disease