Terminal Illnesses
(asked on 9th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many working-age people in England were diagnosed with a terminal illness in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 16th July 2014
Data on the number of people diagnosed with a terminal illness is not collected centrally.
Information recorded in Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCs), also known as ‘locality registers' or ‘end of life care registers' is not collected centrally. EPaCCs are implemented locally and are the responsibility of local commissioners. The core data set for EPaCCs does not include information about a dying person's employment status.