National Audit of End-of-Life Care Quality in England and Wales, 2018

A national comparative audit of the quality and outcomes of care experienced by dying people and their loved ones during their last hospital admission in England and Wales. Data was collected between June and October 2018, with 97% of eligible organizations participating. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance on end-of-life care standards based on the national audit framework.
• Analyzing regional variations in care quality and outcomes across England and Wales.
• Identifying factors associated with positive or negative care experiences for patients and their families.
• Training models to predict or classify audit outcomes for quality improvement initiatives.

Strengths

• High institutional participation rate of 97% for the eligible organizations in the audit.
• Data collection followed a standardized national audit framework across England and Wales.
• Clear temporal scope with data gathered between June and October 2018.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

National comparative audit via data collection from healthcare organizations.

Time Range

Data collected between June and October 2018.

Freshness

Data collected in 2018; last platform update date is unknown.

Geography

England and Wales