Due to a change to the software used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to code deaths data from 2014 onwards, it was not possible to determine whether the count of deaths for secondary causes to skull fracture and intracranial injury or fracture of femur were comparable over the 2012-2014 or 2013-2015 three-year periods. As a result, NHS Digital excluded this indicator from refreshes where comparability over the entire three-year period could not be assured.
The data files available below relate to an entire three-year period subsequent to the ONS software change taking place. This means the underlying counts for each year within the three-year period are now on a comparable basis, and there is no further reason for the indicator to be excluded from routine refreshes.
For more information on the ONS change of software to code deaths please see link 'Impact of the implementation of IRIS software for ICD-10 cause of death coding on mortality statistics' in the downloads section below.
To reduce deaths from fracture of femur.
Legacy unique identifier: P00097