ONS Deaths Metrics

For 2018 and 2019

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregistrationsummarytables/2019

2019 –  530,841

2018  – 541,589

For 2020

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/monthlyfiguresondeathsregisteredbyareaofusualresidence

Dec – 52,676

Nov – 47, 910

Oct – 43,265

Sep – 39,827

Aug  – 34, 750

Jul – 38,179

Jun – 42,624

May – 52,374

Apr – 88,153

Mar – 49,723

Feb –  43,653

Jan –  56,706

TOTAL 589, 840

If the NHS had not been closed to normal functioning, there is a good chance that last year’s mortality would have been less than both 2018 and 2019