DEATH
20th October 2015
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of natural deaths occurred (a) at home, (b) in a hospice, (c) in a care home, (d) in the home of a friend or relative and (e) in hospital in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
Ben Gummer, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Deaths by place of occurrence, 2010-13, England and Wales
|
Year |
Home |
Care home |
Hospice |
Hospitals |
Other communal establishments |
Elsewhere |
|
2010 |
102,416 |
89,320 |
25,615 |
264,962 |
1,635 |
9,294 |
|
2011 |
105,354 |
92,386 |
26,361 |
249,387 |
1,537 |
9,342 |
|
2012 |
110,111 |
103,164 |
27,493 |
247,732 |
1,709 |
9,122 |
|
2013 |
113,071 |
107,090 |
27,102 |
248,238 |
1,698 |
9,591 |
Source: Series DR Mortality Statistics: Deaths Registered in England and Wales, Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Notes:
- The latest ONS data on deaths by place of occurrence relate to 2013. Data for 2014 will be released later this year. Data for 2015 will be released in 2016.
- Death figures are based on deaths registered rather than deaths occurring in a calendar year. Figures are not collected by financial year.
- Place of death is defined using a revised place of death classification.
- Deaths at home are those at the usual residence of the deceased (according to the informant)‚ where this is not a communal establishment.
- Care homes includes homes for the chronic sick; nursing homes; homes for people with mental health problems and non-NHS multi-function sites.
- Hospices include Sue Ryder Homes; Marie Curie Centres; oncology centres; voluntary hospice units; and palliative care centres.
- Other Communal Establishments include schools for people with learning disabilities; holiday homes and hotels; common lodging houses; aged persons’ accommodation; assessment centres; schools; convents and monasteries; nurses’ homes; university and college halls of residence; young offender institutions; secure training centres; detention centres; prisons and remand homes.
- Elsewhere includes all places not covered above such as deaths on a motorway; at the beach; climbing a mountain; walking down the street; at the cinema; at a football match; while out shopping; or in someone else's home. This category also includes people who are pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
- Data are not collected specifically on deaths occurring in the home of a friend or relative.
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