About 20 terminally ill people in UK die in unrelieved pain each day, research finds

OHE said it used ‘most conservative of estimates’ and ‘the true number is likely to be much larger’. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

An estimated 20 terminally ill people in the UK die in unrelieved pain each day, according to a study by the independent Office of Health Economics (OHE).

According to its research, to be presented to MPs on Tuesday, one in four people receiving palliative care in England have “unmet pain needs”. The OHE said it used “the most conservative of estimates [suggesting] the true number is likely to be much larger”.