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Palliative and End of Life Care: a data cube slice

The percentage of last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting

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Dimensions
Dimension
Value
Age
  1. 0-17 years
  2. 0-54 years
  3. 18-44 years
  4. All
  5. 45-54 years
  6. 55-64 years
  7. 65-74 years
  8. 75-84 years
  9. 85 years and over
Measure Type
  1. Count
  2. Mean
  3. Ratio
Palliative And End Of Life Care Indicator
  1. Average days in community
  2. Average days in hospital
  3. Number of deaths
  4. Percentage spent at home or community setting
  5. Percentage spent in hospital
  6. Total length of stay
Reference Period
  1. 2010/2011
  2. 2011/2012
  3. 2012/2013
  4. 2013/2014
  5. 2014/2015
  6. 2015/2016
  7. 2016/2017
  8. 2017/2018
  9. 2018/2019
  10. 2020/2021
  11. 2021/2022
  12. 2022/2023
  13. 2023/2024
Sex
  1. All
  2. Female
  3. Male
  4. Missing
Simd Quintiles
  1. 1 - most deprived
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5 - least deprived
  6. All
Urban Rural Classification
  1. Accessible rural
  2. Accessible small towns
  3. All
  4. Large urban areas
  5. Other urban areas
  6. Remote rural
  7. Remote small towns
Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data)
  1. Countries
  2. Council Areas
  3. Health Board Areas
  4. Integration Authorities
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About the Dataset
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License
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Issued
29/07/2014
Modified
21/10/2024
Next update due
November 2025
Description

The percentage of last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting.

Includes all ages, sex, SIMD quintile and urban rural classification. Deaths resulting from external causes are excluded.

End of life care (palliative care) is an important, integral aspect of the health care provided to those living with and dying from any advanced or progressive and life-threatening condition. It is now possible to predict the progress of many of these conditions, enabling a planned approach to end of life care in ways which reflect, as far as possible, the needs and wishes of patients, carers and their families.

More information is available at Public Health Scotland.

Details
Confidentiality Policy

Please see our privacy notice on the Public Health Scotland website.
Quality Management

Our statistics comply with the Code of Practice for Statistics in terms of trustworthiness, high quality and public value. This also means that we keep data secure at all stages, through collection, processing, analysis and output production, and adhere to the ‘five safes’.
Accuracy and Reliability

SMR01 and SMR04 standard validation processes; wide stakeholder consultation on technical methodology.
Coherence and Comparability

Trend information from 2010/11 to 2023/24 is available and is not comparable to figures published previously.
Accessibility and Clarity

It is the policy of PHS to make its web sites and products accessible according to published guidelines.
Relevance

Making information publicly available; allowing assessment of implementation/impact of policies or targets.
Timeliness and Punctuality

The data used in this publication were extracted from the SMR national databases in August 2024. Full details of SMR data completeness and SMR data timeliness can be found on the SMR Completeness and SMR Timeliness web pages respectively.
Revisions

All data are revised to ensure the most complete data are presented. Data for most recent financial year are provisional and will be updated in the October 2025 publication. Revisions of this nature are due to incomplete data returns at the time of publication. There has been a change to the age bands from the financial year 2014/15 where the age group 0-54 has been spilt into 0-17, 18-44 and 45-54.
URI

This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.

https://statistics.gov.scot/slice?dataset=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdata%2Fend-of-life-care&http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Flinked-data%2Fsdmx%2F2009%2Fdimension%23refPeriod=http%3A%2F%2Freference.data.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fgovernment-year%2F2016-2017&http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fdimension%2Fage=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fconcept%2Fage%2Fall
Dimensions Linked Data

A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values

Dimension Locked Value
Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
 2016/2017
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/government-year/2016-2017
Age
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/age
 All
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/age/all
Palliative And End Of Life Care Indicator
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/palliativeAndEndOfLifeCareIndicator
 (not locked to a value)
Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
 (not locked to a value)
Simd Quintiles
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/simdQuintiles
 (not locked to a value)
Sex
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/sex
 (not locked to a value)
Urban Rural Classification
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/urbanRuralClassification
 (not locked to a value)
Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
 (not locked to a value)