NACEL Quality Improvement
Documents/Videos
Documents
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The NACEL Healthcare Quality Improvement Plan identifies 5 areas of focused improvement, outlining the rationale for each area and how performance against each area will be measured.
The plan also sets out how the NACEL team will support quality improvement, from national to local levels. Click here for more information.
Download Healthcare Improvement Plan 2026 (.pdf)
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The NACEL Driver Diagram was developed to help focus all aspects of NACEL 2024 and 2025, including quality improvement.
It acts as a framework, articulating 10 indicators of good quality end of life care and identifying areas that may need improvement to achieve these. Click here for more information.
Download NACEL Driver Diagram (.pdf)
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Ten key indicators have been identified by the NACEL Team and NACEL Steering Group as the audit headline metrics to support quality improvement in care at the end of life.
Download 10 Key Indicators
Download Key Indicators Rationale
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To help organisations report their findings, we’ve created 4 reporting templates and a mapping document, which outlines how each metric aligns with the NACEL drivers and highlights Key Indicator and Management of Outlier metrics.
Download the reporting templates
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Download the mapping document
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An example script to help healthcare professionals support patients, carers and bereaved people understand the findings on the quality of care at the end of life shown in the NACEL Patient and Carer Tool
