A current research project within our Health and social care programme  is investigating whether there was an  increase in deaths at home  during and after the Covid19 pandemic and the implications for end of life care and health service usage.

Our Research Fellow, Jan Savinc, shares his initial findings from his work analysing the linked death records held by National Records Scotland and health service data held by Public Health Scotland, with Dr Iain Atherton. 

Listeners may wish to read these accompanying articles after hearing the Research Update:
- DATA INSIGHTS -Were people who died at home less likely to attend hospital at the end of life during the Covid pandemic?
- BLOG SERIES: Dramatic increase in deaths at home
- PALLIATIVE CARE AT HOME: implications of the Covid-19 pandemic and into the future, March 2021

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