Improving patient experience, and the experiences of those that care for them, stand at the forefront of NHS reforms. This can be seen from the introduction of a new indicator for the 2013/14 NHS Outcomes Framework to

improve the experience of care for people at the end of their lives, and (in doing this) to seek bereaved carer's views on the quality of care in the last three months of life...

The Quality Profile shown opposite is a visual display of nine of the key indicators measured by the VOICES survey of the bereaved.

Contact me if you would like to see the profile for your own Cluster area
There is a wealth of information in the background report below relating to End of Life Quality Indicators. Including lots of useful direct links to strategic documents
The spider diagram above shows the relative performance of each PCT cluster in the North of England.