Care at the end of life - new data on community hospitals from NACEL. The NACEL Patient and Carer Tool
Who should attend?
- Matrons and ward managers
- Palliative and end of life care leads
- Quality improvement and clinical governance leads
- Directors of nursing
- Chaplaincy and spiritual care leads
- Bereavement and patient experience leads
- Audit and data leads
- General and operational managers with responsibility for community hospitals
Why attend?
Event Timing: Wednesday 2nd September 2026 at 1.30-2.30PM
Location: Online - Zoom
Speaker: Jessica Moss, Quality Improvement Lead - National Audit for Care at the End of Life, NHS Benchmarking Network
Chair: Dr Helen Tucker MBE, SIG Co-convenor
This session introduces the Patient and Carer Tool, developed as part of the National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) - the national comparative audit of end of life care experienced by dying people and those important to them across acute hospitals, community hospitals and mental health inpatient providers in England, Wales and Jersey.
The tool makes NACEL results accessible to patients, families and carers, presenting five key performance measures - covering specialist palliative care availability, pain relief, personalised care planning, spiritual/cultural needs assessment, and overall care ratings - by country and region.
For community hospitals, the session will cover what the tool shows, how results are drawn from case note review and bereavement survey data, and what participation and public transparency mean for local quality improvement.
The current Patient and Carer Tool can be found here – regional and national level data only.
A full report about the development of the tool can be found here.
