Summary

Deaths from causes that are considered avoidable in the presence of timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions. Data are based on a revised definition of avoidable mortality (introduced in data year 2014) for all persons and a separate indicator for children and young people. The time series has been revised using new rebased population estimates from 2012.

Publications

• Avoidable mortality in England and Wales: 2021 and 2022

  Deaths from causes considered treatable or preventable given timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions in those aged under 75 years.

Data

• Avoidable mortality by Clinical Commissioning Groups in England and Health Boards in Wales

  Annual age-standardised mortality rates for causes considered avoidable, treatable and preventable by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) in England and Health Boards in Wales, 2001 to 2022. Data for England are presented for ICBs for years 2021 and 2022, and for CCGs for 2001 to 2020.

• Avoidable mortality by local authorities in England and unitary authorities in Wales

  Annual age-standardised mortality rates for causes considered avoidable, treatable and preventable by local authorities in England and unitary authorities in Wales from 2001 to 2003 to 2020 to 2022.

• Avoidable mortality in England and Wales – supplementary data tables

  Supplementary annual data for England and Wales for 2001 to 2022: standardised years of life lost (SYLL) because of causes considered avoidable; age-standardised avoidable, treatable and preventable mortality rates with and without deaths from ischaemic heart disease (IHD); and number of avoidable, treatable and preventable deaths by sex and age.

• Avoidable mortality in England and Wales

  Annual age-standardised mortality rates for causes considered avoidable, treatable and preventable in England and Wales, 2001 to 2022.

• Avoidable mortality in England and Wales – children and young people

  Annual age-standardised mortality rates for causes considered avoidable, treatable and preventable in England and Wales for children and young people (aged 0 to 19 years), 2001 to 2022.

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Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   28 May 2024 9:30am

   Reason for change

   This release has been postponed from 28 May 2024 to 18 June 2024 to provide further commentary and analysis. We apologise for any inconvenience.

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