Health care costs tend to rise sharply as individuals approach the end of life. Patients prefer dying at home rather than hospital, however, half of deaths in England occur in hospitals and little is known about related costs across health and social care sectors.
We explored how end-of-life costs vary depending on where you die, receipt of hospice care, and the disease you die from, and health service use and costs for end-of-life patients across multiple care sectors e.g. primary, hospital, community, social care, focusing on how patients’ preferences of place of death can be addressed.