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<p>NHS Digital statistics record that, in 2017/18, there were 32,115 new requests
for services from applicants who were deceased before they received the package. This
data records requests for care, not individual deaths as requested, and represents
approximately 1.7% of total new requests.</p><p> </p><p>This first mandatory collection
of this date was in 2017/18, with complete data for years prior to 2017/18 not available.
The data was first collected in 2016/17 via a voluntary collection from local authorities
where less than a quarter of local authorities submitted a response. This means that
the 2016/17 and 2017/18 figures are not directly comparable; in 2016/17 the voluntary
returns from local authorities who recorded 6,580 new requests for services from applicants
who were deceased before they received the package, based on returns from 36 out of
152 local authorities.</p>
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