Palliative Care: Mortality Rates
(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding by N White et al A Systematic Review of Predictions of Survival in Palliative Care: How Accurate Are Clinicians and Who Are the Experts?, published on 25 August 2016, which found that the accuracy of prognoses for terminal illnesses ranged between 23 and 78 per cent; and who is responsible within NHS England for collecting such data.
This question was answered on 12th July 2023
No assessment has been made. Data on the accuracy of prognoses of terminal illness is not collected by NHS England.