An Analysis of Healthcare Usage & Place of Death in England for All Adults Who Died in 2021/22.

Objective: We wanted to examine the healthcare use and non-elective activity in the UK population of expected deaths over an 1-year period to highlight and examine the reasons for variation. We did this to identify areas to focus interventions or resources on to reduce unnecessary emergency care use at the end of life.

Methods And Analysis: We assembled a data set of approximately 400 000 adults who died in England in the financial year 2021/22 (April 2021-March 2022).