Database

The Preventable Deaths Tracker is the first and only centralised database of all coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs) in England and Wales that provides real-time statistics and structured data downloads.

Yearly average

From Jan 2014 to end 2024


450

Mean number of reports published each year, for full calendar years.

Year to date


371

Published coroners’ PFD reports in 2025.

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Geography

Reports Heatmap Heatmap of the report frequencies for coroner areas Greater Manchester South (480) London Inner North (312) West Sussex, Brighton and Hove (186) Surrey (177) Birmingham and Solihull (179) London East (167) London Inner South (140) Greater Manchester West (128) South Wales Central (137) Nottinghamshire (128) Greater Manchester North (127) Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (123) Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (124) Yorkshire West Eastern (118) County of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay (113) Norfolk (120) County Durham and Darlington (106) Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton (97) Yorkshire West Western (96) Yorkshire South West (95) North Wales (East and Central) (105) Avon (101) Essex (93) London Inner West (84) The Black Country Jurisdiction (86) Cumbria (78) Leicester City and South Leicestershire (75) Suffolk (78) Dorset (75) Bedfordshire and Luton (74) London West (62) London North (69) Berkshire (70) Kent Mid and Medway (67) Manchester City (64) Liverpool and the Wirral (68) Milton Keynes (77) Derby and Derbyshire (60) Greater Lincolnshire (67) Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen (60) Worcestershire (71) Cheshire (55) London South (50) Yorkshire South East (55) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (48) Wiltshire and Swindon (55) Blackpool and Fylde (52) Gwent (47) East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull (40) Hertfordshire (35) Sunderland (45) Warwickshire (34) Oxfordshire (34) Gloucestershire (40) Newcastle and North Tyneside (36) Kent Central and South East (30) Northamptonshire (35) Coventry (28) North Yorkshire and York (31) Kent North East (25) Swansea and Neath Port Talbot (33) East Sussex (27) Somerset (30) Northumberland (25) Teesside and Hartlepool (24) Buckinghamshire (24) North West Wales (23) Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (27) Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire (23) London City (16) Rutland and North Leicestershire (15) Isle of Wight (19) Kent North West (11) Herefordshire (15) Gateshead and South Tyneside (11) Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens (6) Ceredigion (2) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 480

Reports

From July 2013 to present


5843

Deaths

From July 2013 to present


6092

Published coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports in England and Wales.

Completed

From July 2013 to present


60.3%

Reports with all published responses

Overdue

From July 2013 to present


24.9%

Reports without any published responses

Partial

From July 2013 to present


13.3%

Reports with some, but not all, required responses published

Pending

Due within 56 days of report date


1.5%

Responses due for reports published in last 56 days

Organisations sent reports

From July 2013 to present


2199

Number of individuals or organisations listed as addressees on coroners’ reports

Loss of life cost

From July 2013 to present


£15.9bn

UK Gov – Average appraisal value estimates per death (£ in 2023 prices)

Responses by addressees

Top 30 from July 2013 to present

Response status by year

From July 2013 to present

Responses by area

Top 30 from July 2013 to present

Responses by coroner

Top 30 from July 2013 to present

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