LeDeR deep dive: Avoidable cancers
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Thematic deep dive examining deaths from potentially avoidable cancers among people with a learning disability.
LeDeR Mortality Reviews
The LeDeR programme reviews the deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people in England. Annual reports are produced by King's College London for NHS England. People with a learning disability die around 20 years younger on average than the general population.
4 reports40.2% of 2023 deaths assessed as avoidable
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- Curated
- Observed update
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- Last record written
- 11 Jun 2026
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Reports and publications
LeDeR Report 2021
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Annual report on deaths notified in 2021. Half of reviewed deaths were assessed as avoidable, against 22 per cent for the general population.
LeDeR Report 2022
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Annual report on deaths notified in 2022, the first authored by the King's College London partnership. 42 per cent of reviewed deaths were assessed as avoidable. Median age at death was 62.9 for adults.
LeDeR Report 2023 (updated January 2026)
- Deaths analysed
- 3,556
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Annual report analysing the deaths of 3,556 people with a learning disability notified to LeDeR in 2023. The report was first published in September 2025 and updated in January 2026 after correction of data collection errors, which revised the proportion of deaths assessed as avoidable from 38.8...