NACEL 2025 Mental Health Spotlight Audit- Pilot sites wanted!

Calling all Mental Health inpatient providers in England and Wales, the NACEL Team need your help in the scoping of the NACEL 2025 Mental Health Spotlight Audit.

What is the Mental Health Spotlight Audit? 
Alongside the current audit running in acute & community hospitals, NACEL will also feature a spotlight audit of Mental Health inpatient providers. The mental health audit ran as part of the main audit in 2018, as a spotlight audit in 2021 and will run again as a spotlight audit in 2025. This spotlight audit is intended to build a national picture of care delivered to dying patients and those important to them, and support healthcare providers and policy makers identify areas for improvement. 

What would being a pilot site involve? 

We want mental health clinical staff in Mental Health inpatient providers to review the data specifications for each audit element keeping mental health services in mind. The audit elements will remain the same as the main acute & community audit but the data specifications have been tailored to better represent mental health inpatient services. Feedback from pilot sites will be facilitated by a survey provided by the NACEL Team.  

Please let us know if your organisation would be interested in being a part of the NACEL 2025 Mental Health Spotlight audit pilot by 15th August by emailing the NACEL Team at: nhsbn.nacelsupport@nhs.net

July Participation Update

Thank you for your continued participation in NACEL 2024. Data collection for NACEL opened on January 1st 2024 and participation rates continue to increase. See an update on data submission figures below.

Share your feedback on NACEL 2024

While data collection continues, the NACEL team are also turning our attention to scoping NACEL 2025. As part of this process, we would like to gather your feedback on the audit and the changes we’ve made over the past year.
If you would like to share your comments, please fill out the form linked below or send your thoughts to nhsbn.nacelsupport@nhs.net.

All feedback and suggestions are much appreciated and will shape the scoping of NACEL 2025.

DIT update: Dashboards now available!

We are pleased to announce that the Dashboard view of the Data and Improvement Tool (DIT) is now available!

The dashboards present a summary of each of the 10 NACEL Primary Drivers, allowing users to compare their submission(s) with national and regional results at a glance!

You can find guidance on how to navigate the dashboards on the DIT Guidance page of the NACEL Portal.