End of Life Care Profiles

December 2011 update

We have updated the Profiles with 2010 data - the latest available nationally - and have made some other changes to improve the tool. To find out what's changed, read End of Life Care Profiles 2011 - What's changed?

The Profiles

The End of Life Care Profiles present data on place of death and cause of death, by age and sex, for each Local Authority in England using the InstantAtlas mapping tool. The data can be viewed in map, chart and table format. The tool has been designed to make it easy to compare statistics across Local Authority areas. The Profiles are used by policy makers, commissioners and providers of end of life care services, among others, to identify areas and populations of need.

To download the Profiles*, click on the links in the left-hand column in the Table below. You can also view the metadata guides for each Profile by clicking on the links in the right-hand column. The metadata describe how the indicators were generated and provide data sources, definitions and caveats.

There is also a User Guide to help explain how to use the InstantAtlas mapping tool.

End of Life Care Profiles and associated metadata
End of Life Care Profile	Associated metadata document
End of Life Care Profiles - Cause of death - main (underlying) cause	Metadata for End of Life Care Cause of Death Profile
End of Life Care Profiles - Cause of death - any listed cause (mentions)	Metadata for End of Life Care Cause of Death (any mention) Profile
End of Life Care Profiles - Place of death	Metadata for End of Life Care Place of Death Profile
End of Life Care Profiles - Place and cause of death	Metadata for End of Life Care Place of Death with Cause of Death Profile

*Note: The End of Life Care Profiles use InstantAtlas™ mapping software. You need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player to download the Profiles. You can install this for free from the Adobe website. Some organisations have security settings which block the use of Flash Player or the download of the Profiles tool. You will need to speak to your IT department to allow access if this is the case. If you have any other problems downloading the Profiles, please contact us.

Background

The South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO), as national lead public health observatory for end of life care, was commissioned by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) to develop a set of indicators to help identify and understand variation in end of life care across England. This resulted in the development of the End of Life Care Profiles. The Profiles will be updated and added to over time.

To generate comparisons at a more local level, the Local Authority boundaries set before April 2009 (before larger Unitary Authorities were created) have been used. However, there are plans to present the indicators by Primary Care Trust and these will be added to the website in the future.

Feedback

Please let us know what you think of this tool. We would be very interested to hear if you have any suggestions for additions or improvements. You can contact us using our Feedback form.