Database

The Preventable Deaths Tracker is the first and only centralised database of all coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports that provides real-time statistics.

Yearly average

From Jan 2014 to end 2024


439

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

Year to date


224

Published coroners’ PFD reports in 2025.

Interactive Dashboard

The Preventable Deaths Tracker database is now interactive. Filter by date of report, name of addressees who were sent reports, up to 12 coroner areas, or individual coroner names to get the statistics you need. You can select multiple filters at once, download reports, and save outputs by using the new My Account feature. A maximum of one year of data can be downloaded if filtering by date.

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Geography

Reports Heatmap Heatmap of the report frequencies for coroner areas Greater Manchester South (473) London Inner North (306) West Sussex, Brighton and Hove (184) Surrey (174) Birmingham and Solihull (176) London East (162) South Wales Central (132) Nottinghamshire (124) London Inner South (139) Greater Manchester West (118) Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (124) Greater Manchester North (127) Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (122) Yorkshire West Eastern (115) Norfolk (118) County of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay (108) County Durham and Darlington (102) Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton (93) Yorkshire West Western (92) Yorkshire South West (91) North Wales (East and Central) (104) Avon (97) Essex (88) London Inner West (82) The Black Country Jurisdiction (85) Leicester City and South Leicestershire (74) Cumbria (75) Bedfordshire and Luton (74) London West (61) Manchester City (65) Berkshire (70) Liverpool and the Wirral (69) Suffolk (73) Dorset (71) London North (66) Kent Mid and Medway (64) Derby and Derbyshire (59) Greater Lincolnshire (67) Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen (59) Milton Keynes (72) Worcestershire (68) Cheshire (53) Yorkshire South East (52) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (49) London South (48) Wiltshire and Swindon (55) Blackpool and Fylde (51) Gwent (45) East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull (38) Sunderland (46) Warwickshire (34) Hertfordshire (34) Northamptonshire (37) Oxfordshire (32) Gloucestershire (39) Kent Central and South East (30) Newcastle and North Tyneside (36) Coventry (27) North Yorkshire and York (30) Kent North East (22) East Sussex (27) Swansea and Neath Port Talbot (31) Somerset (29) Northumberland (22) Teesside and Hartlepool (23) North West Wales (23) Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (27) Buckinghamshire (23) London City (16) Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire (22) 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 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 473

Reports

From July 2013 to present


5704

Deaths

From July 2013 to present


5871

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

Completed

From July 2013 to present


59.0%

Reports with all published responses

Overdue

From July 2013 to present


25.8%

Reports without any published responses

Partial

From July 2013 to present


14.2%

Reports with some, but not all, required responses published

Pending

Due within 56 days of report date


1.1%

Responses due for reports published in last 56 days

Organisations sent reports

From July 2013 to present


2164

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

Loss of life cost

From July 2013 to present


£15.3bn

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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