FOI Reference: FOI/2022/4230
You asked
Please will you provide me with the number of UK deaths where 'Sudden Adult Death Syndrome' or 'Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome' are mentioned on the death certificate for the year 2021 and, so far this year, 2022.
I'd also like the stats for 'Sudden Death, cause unknown' and 'Sudden Cardiac Death', for the same years previously mentioned.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Please see previously answered Freedom of Information request which addresses some of your enquiry.
Sudden Adult Deaths 2016 to 2021
2021 and 2022 data are still provisional and subject to change, this is to allow the inclusion of late registrations which are deaths which have been referred for Coroner investigation.
Finalised 2021 data will be available on the 1July 2022 as part of our Deaths Registered Series and 21st Century Mortality and NOMIS will be updated to include this information.
We have not completed analysis of 2022 data for these ICD-10 codes; however, this is available as a bespoke provisional data request under our User Requested data service.
Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.