Coroner reports by category - Preventable Deaths Tracker

The Chief Coroner’s Office classifies Prevention of Future Deaths reports into ad-hoc categories.

These categories have changed over time and overlap. However, there is no guidance or details available on how PFDs are classified. For example, what deaths are categorised as “Other related deaths”?

Hospital-related deaths are the most common category

Here we graph the number of PFDs tagged in each category over a decade, from inception (July 2013) until the latest Sunday scrape.

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Categories over time

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Mental health-related deaths have increased

This graph shares the combination of PFDs classed as mental health and suicide over time. The suicide category was introduced in 2015.

Emergency Services

There are two categories related to emergency services, which we have combined and present over time.

Data of PFDs by death category over time

year	Accident at Work and Health and Safety related deaths	Alcohol, drug and medication related deaths	Care Home Health related deaths	Child Death (from 2015)	Community health care and emergency services related deaths	Emergency services related deaths (2019 onwards)	Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths	Mental Health related deaths	Other related deaths	Police related deaths	Product related deaths	Railway related deaths	Road (Highways Safety) related deaths	Service Personnel related deaths	State Custody related deaths	Suicide (from 2015)	Wales prevention of future deaths reports (2019 onwards)
2013	2	6	14	0	30	0	62	14	15	2	4	2	16	0	8	0	0
2014	5	16	30	0	69	0	241	18	66	9	13	5	57	6	36	0	0
2015	8	10	25	35	47	0	224	11	55	7	9	5	39	7	31	14	0
2016	9	10	26	33	60	1	227	27	50	13	9	7	40	0	33	45	0
2017	9	4	29	24	63	0	240	17	38	10	11	11	41	1	23	21	0
2018	8	24	33	22	52	1	182	33	45	5	3	8	34	3	22	33	0
2019	7	53	34	38	41	43	215	64	46	12	5	10	51	4	35	55	31
2020	5	44	25	27	63	23	98	65	66	10	9	7	25	1	13	55	12
2021	5	64	43	40	82	20	200	113	105	36	27	11	27	5	30	91	19
2022	5	69	34	35	32	34	135	86	85	12	4	11	33	0	20	94	26
2023	7	57	33	56	0	36	175	33	89	0	1	10	32	1	25	115	14
2024	0	27	6	13	1	12	45	6	22	0	0	3	9	0	6	31	0