Table 2.

Relative contribution of each disease group to expected deaths and uptake of specialist palliative care services within each diagnostic group.

	Percentage (absolute numbers)
Diagnosis	...of deaths	... who knew specialist palliative care services were utilised
Cancer	77.5 (3683)	52.0 (1917)
Motor neurone disease and other neurodegenerative disorders	3.0 (142)	51.4 (73)
End-stage lung disease	9.0 (428)	37.1 (159)
End-stage cardiac failure	4.9 (235)	28.1 (66)
End-stage hepatic disease	0.8 (39)	35.9 (14)
End-stage renal failure	0.9 (43)	30.2 (13)
AIDS	0.4 (17)	58.8 (10)
Other diagnoses	3.5 (167)	26.3 (44)
Total	100.0 (4754)	48.3 (2296)

2002-03 and 2005-7