Claim: The rise in deaths is the largest for almost fifty years, prompting concerns about a crisis in elderly care.
Fact-check: What's behind the rise in deaths?  - Full Fact
Verdict: provisional data suggests the increase in deaths in england and wales from 2014 to 2015 was the largest annual rise since 1968. the rate of death—the number of deaths per 1,000 population—is also thought to be up. the ons told us the higher number of deaths was due to the flu.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2016-02-16T00:00:00