mortality tables

There was an increase of 2,700 in the number of deaths from less common cancers between 2010 and 2013, a report from Public Health England (PHE) and Cancer 52 has found.

People over the age of 65 are about seven times more likely to develop malignant melanoma than 40 years ago, according to figures from Cancer Research UK.

NHS England has made available data on surgeons' performance with an increase in the number of surgeons in the data and surgeries covered.

Mortality projection models are in need of a radical overhaul to ease insurers' funding problems and give them confidence when pricing future retirement income solutions, an influential new report argues.

A new nationwide method for calculating NHS mortality rates has been unveiled following a national review.