Palliative and End of Life Care Profiles

The goal of these profiles is to improve the availability and accessibility of information and intelligence around palliative and end of life care. The profiles 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, including:

  • needs assessment 
  • care homes and community
  • hospital care
  • place of death
  • mortality
  • dementia
  • underlying cause of death

The Fingertips guidance offers information on how to use the profiles. The palliative and end of life care profiles have been developed by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) which also publishes palliative and end of life care reports and bulletins on GOV.UK.

More information

A statistical commentary published in December 2023 describes the update of indicators on place of death, deaths of temporary care home residents and deaths with 3 or more emergency hospital admissions.  

Factsheets

Go to the factsheets on patterns of care, care homes and place of death.

Resource directory

Go to the resource directory page for more intelligence and guidance. 

Contact us

For enquiries or feedback relating to the palliative and end of life care pages, email neolcin@dhsc.gov.uk 

Updates

Dates for updates to the profile will be announced on the GOV.UK statistical release calendar.

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