Palliative and end of life care profiles: September 2021 data update
The profiles provide an overview of palliative and end of life care in England at various geographies.
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The update for September 2021 has been published by Public Health England (PHE).
The care home bed rate and nursing home bed rate indicators have been updated to include 2021 care home data for England, strategic clinical network areas, local authorities and government office regions.
The temporary resident care home deaths indicator has been revised using a new ONS data field in the mortality data set. This update is for 2019 data and includes the following geographies: England, clinical commissioning groups, sustainability and transformation partnerships, strategic clinical networks, local authorities and government office regions.
Place of death factsheets including monthly provisional place of death statistics will be newly released for clinical commissioning groups in the Reports section of the tool. These include the percentage of deaths in hospital, home, care home, hospice and other places by age at death (all ages, 0 to 64 years, 65 to 74 years, 75 to 84 years and 85 and older) for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The Palliative and end of life care profiles are presented in an interactive tool which aims to help local government and health services improve care at the end of life.