Geographical variation - Preventable Deaths Tracker

There are 86 coroner’s areas in England and Wales. Using data from 22nd June 2022, we present the number of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFDs) by geographical area.

London (15.3%, n= 614) and Greater Manchester (14.5%, n=582) had the greatest number of PFDs. The median number of PFDs written by area was 39 (IQR: 17-61).

Figure 1: Geographical map of the number of PFDs written from inception (July 2013) to 22nd June 2022 (n=4001) using Police Force Areas (n=43) since no latitude and longitudinal data was available to map the coronial areas. All coronial areas in Greater London have been merged as the union of the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police Force Areas. The coronial areas of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, South Wales Central, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, and Ceredigion are merged as the union of Dyfed-Powys and South Wales Police Force Areas.

Figure 2: Bar graph of the frequency of PFDs by coroner areas from inception (July 2013) to 22nd June 2022.

Table 1: Data used to plot figure 2, which is searchable, filterable, and can be downloaded for use.

corrected_area	Count
Manchester South	326
Inner North London	208
Birmingham and Solihull	126
Surrey	118
Inner South London	110
Manchester West	105
South Wales Central	105
East London	95
Manchester North	95
West Yorkshire (Eastern)	88
Norfolk	87
Nottinghamshire	79
Avon	79
Black Country	75
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	71
West Sussex	68
North Wales (East and Central)	67
Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton	66
County Durham and Darlington	66
West Yorkshire (Western)	64
Leicester City and South Leicestershire	61
Brighton and Hove	61
South Yorkshire (Western)	60
Staffordshire South	60
North London	59
Bedfordshire and Luton	59
Inner West London	59
Manchester City	56
Milton Keynes	54
Essex	54
Cumbria	52
Wiltshire and Swindon	52
Lincolnshire	49
Mid Kent and Medway	48
Liverpool and the Wirral	46
Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon	45
Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen	45
South Yorkshire (Eastern)	44
Exeter and Greater Devon	43
Dorset	43
Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire	40
Suffolk	40
Worcestershire	39
West London	39
Sunderland	38
Blackpool and the Fylde	37
South London	36
Berkshire	36
Gloucestershire	33
Derby and Derbyshire	32
Warwickshire	31
Hertfordshire	29
Oxfordshire	26
Gwent	26
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	26
Cheshire	25
Central and South East Kent	23
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin	21
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire	21
Coventry	19
Isle of Wight	19
Buckinghamshire	18
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot	17
Northamptonshire	17
Newcastle upon Tyne	17
North East Kent	14
Somerset	13
East Sussex	13
North Northumberland	12
North West Wales	11
Teesside	11
East Riding and Hull	10
North Yorkshire (Western)	9
City of London	8
Rutland and North Leicestershire	7
North West Kent	7
Gateshead and South Tyneside	7
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby	4
South Northumberland	4
North Yorkshire (Eastern)	4
North Tyneside	4
York City	3
Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens	2
Herefordshire	2
Hartlepool	2
Ceredigion	1

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