This update follows a joint statement issued in September 2014 when NHS England and PHE announced their plans to work together to test the feasibility of developing a national palliative care clinical dataset. The feasibility work involved a number of pilot sites trialling the dataset and feedback from these sites indicate that the dataset has been beneficial in a number of ways. A full evaluation is now underway and will be published in the summer, alongside the dataset which will be available for local use on a voluntary basis.