August 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.

Sign up for the next NACEL Quality Improvement webinar

Sign up for the next NACEL Quality Improvement webinar! The webinar will take place on Thursday 17th October, 1pm-2pm via MS Teams. The topic is to be confirmed.

The last Quality Improvement webinar was held on 25th July. The webinar looked at how to get started with QI work, and focused on the needs of loved ones and others close to the person who has died. To access the event slides and recording please click on the button below:

Reminder for Site Admins to check pending Data and Improvement Tool users

Reminder for DIT Site Admin users to check their pending users and accept/decline requests.

Members of your team will not have access to the DIT until the Site Admin has approved their registration request. The NACEL Team will also be reaching out directly in the coming weeks to remind Site Admins to do this. 

Pending users can be found under the 'Admin' tab after logging in, or can be viewed by clicking here.

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