If by "off the charts" you mean about the same as the EU then sure. (Germany is particularly badly affected - which is interesting because the British press has

If by "off the charts" you mean about the same as the EU then sure. (Germany is particularly badly affected - which is interesting because the British press has been pointing to their higher levels of healthcare funding and larger number of hospital beds as proof our healthcare system has been catastrophically underfunded. Eurostat doesn't have the December figures, but Germany had a 23% excess mortality rate in October, the most recent month, when England was still at 10%. If it was the other way around the headlines here would be yelling about a catastrophic failure... It looks like other EU members experienced similar spikes earlier in 2022 too.)