Mortascreen boosts offering with Experian deceased data

LONDON - Deceased suppression service Mortascreen has secured a data feed from Experian that it claims will enable it to boost its reporting to cover 95% of all UK deaths.

Mortascreen currently has more than 6m records of deaths in the UK dating back to 1989 and the first feed of the new data will increase this total to 7m.

It is now offering up to 50,000 records per month, which will make it the most comprehensive deceased suppression file available on the market.

Karen Webster, Mortascreen product director, said: "The new monthly data feed will mean that Mortascreen is bigger, better and more recent than any other file available on the market, rendering all other deceased suppression solutions obsolete."

This new partnership also means that more records will be available within days of a death.

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