Palliative and End of Life Care

This data provides information in support of the Scottish Government’s Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care which has one of its commitments to “support improvements in the collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data and evidence relating to needs, provision, activity, indicators and outcomes in respect of palliative and end of life care”.

The percentage of time in the last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting provides a high level indication of progress in implementation of the strategic framework for action. This is inferred by measuring the amount of time spent in a hospital setting during the last months of life (using hospital admissions data) and from this estimating the time spent at home or in a community setting.