Release

Death Certification Reform, England and Wales: 9 September 2024 to 30 June 2025 (provisional data)

Release date: 9 October 2025 9:30am

Summary

Analysis of death registrations since death certification reform, including time taken to register death, cause of death, and new ethnicity and pregnancy fields. This release includes both accredited official statistics and official statistics in development.

Publications

Data

Contact details

Name

Population Health Monitoring Group

Email

health.data@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1329 444110

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest