National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre

Programme Overview

The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre will deliver six new national cancer audits:

• Breast cancer (primary)
• Breast cancer (metastatic)
• Ovarian cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)
• Kidney cancer

The Centre also includes the following existing national cancer audits:

• Prostate cancer
• Oesophago-Gastric Cancer
• Bowel cancer
• Lung cancer

The new collaborating centre is part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) and is funded by NHS England and the Welsh Government, with £5.4m for an initial period of three years. It aims to:

1. Provide regular and timely evidence to cancer services of where patterns of care in England and Wales may vary.
2. Support NHS services to increase the consistency of access to treatments and help guide quality improvement initiatives.
3. Stimulate improvements in cancer detection, treatment and outcomes for patients, including survival rates

The centre started on 1 October 2022, please click here for more information.

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.