National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL)

The audit looks at the quality and outcomes of care experienced by those in their last admission in acute, community and mental health hospitals throughout England and Wales. Outputs from this project will be of interest to those who deliver and commission care, and to those in the final stages of life and their families.

The National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) is currently being redesigned, with the goal of providing more frequent and timely data to organisations and facilitating the use of this data to drive quality improvement.

There will be a pause on data collection in 2023, except in organisations participating in the pilot. Further information on how to register interest in participating in the pilot will be released in the coming months.

Data collection will recommence in 2024 and will include all NHS providers of acute and community inpatient services in England and Wales.

Additional information on all HQIP-commissioned projects is available on the NHS Trusts page, which includes the recommendations repository, infographics compendium, 9 month publication schedule, impact report, and National Clinical Audit and Enquiries Directory. For further information about this project, please contact the project team directly using the contact details listed in the ‘Supplier Info’ section above.

Accessing data

Data collected on behalf of HQIP by all NCAPOP projects is routinely reported and these reports are available in the ‘Related resources’ section.

For regularly updated dynamic reporting of audit data, follow the link in the HQIP Directory in the column called ‘Link to dynamic reporting’.

The reported data is also placed on the data.gov.uk website.

For details of how to apply for data that is not in the public domain, please see HQIP’s data access webpages.

Details of the contracts that HQIP awards are available at: www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.