Research and analysis

Emergency admissions in the 3 months before death

Deaths among those who had 3 or more emergency admissions in the last 3 months of life in England, 2009 to 2018.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 3 March 2020

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This report provides information on the numbers of deaths in people with 3 or more emergency admissions in the last 3 months of life, by:

• age
• sex
• geography
• deprivation
• ethnicity
• rurality
• cause of death

The supporting data provides the underlying data summaries used for all tables and figures in the document.

PHE’s National End of Life Care Intelligence Network has published previous reports in this Palliative and end of life care report series:

• Older people’s hospital admissions in the last year of life
• Older people who died in hospital: England 2017
• Palliative and end of life care: hospital deaths 2006 to 2017
• Death in people aged 75 years and older in England in 2017

Published 3 March 2020