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Proportion of deaths taking place in a hospice as a percentage of all deaths (%) (11159) Metric type
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- This is the percentage of deaths of all ages registered that are reported as taking place in a hospice. This includes deaths due to external causes and all other causes of death.
This group includes many charitably funded independent hospices, and specialist palliative care centres. Many of these
places are ‘free standing’, that is not part of a hospital or other institution, but some Classification of place of death hospice services are located within NHS hospitals. This may not be clearly identified on the death certificate. In such instances the place of death is usually reported as ‘hospital’. As a result, mortality statistics underestimate the true number of people who receive hospice care at the end of their life.
- Modified
- 03 Nov 2022
- Data last updated
- 22 Dec 2023
- Short label
- Proportion of deaths taking place in a hospice out of all deaths (%)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Per cent
- Dataset
- Deaths by place of occurrence
- Collection
- Place of Death
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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