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Background and aim: Equal access to palliative care for all in need thereof, regardless of care place, is stressed as a major public health concern by WHO. Over the past decades dying in the preferred place is recognized for its’ impact on wellbeing and has accordingly evolved into a quality indicator for palliative care. Understanding where people die is vital to support health policies, resource allocation, organisation, and provision of person-centred palliative care. National Swedish clinical guidelines and guidance for palliative care were launched in 2012. We aimed to; follow up the impact of those policies by investigating trends in the place of death within the Swedish population 2013 – 2019; analyse how palliative care is articulated in national disease specific policy documents and guidelines; investigate regional stakeholders’ perspective on the status of palliative and end-of-life care for disease populations in Sweden. Design and methods: We used population-level longitudinal data including all deceased individuals >18 years old with a registered place of death (n=599 137), from public and patient data registers and the national register for palliative care. Trends and associations between place of death and co-variables were investigated on total and subgroup level, by logistic regression- and interaction analyses. For the second part we used a mixed-methods design with document analyses and qualitative focus groups component targeting regional cancer care stakeholders’ perspectives. Results: The results from the register study show a trend towards a decrease in hospital deaths within the total population and on group-level, but with large diagnosis-related and crossregional variations. Analyses of documents and interviews are currently ongoing and will be presented.