Cancer performance indicators updated
Published: 09 Jan 2025
Important news for anyone involved in cancer care…
The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN), commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) for NHS England, has released updated performance indicators for nine of its cancer audits; meaning that all NATCAN audits are now publishing data on a quarterly basis via an interactive dashboard.
The first quarterly data dashboards for ovarian, pancreatic, kidney, bowel, oesophago-gastric, and breast (primary and metastatic) cancer audits have been published. While the non-Hodgkin lymphoma and lung cancer audits have also published updated quarterly data dashboards. Healthcare provider teams can utilise these dashboards to review their data completeness and to find out where improvements are needed. The dashboards also enable NHS Trusts to track their progress against key performance indicators over time, and monitor the impact of local quality improvement activities.
Click here to find out more and access the interactive dashboards: www.natcan.org.uk/reports/natcan-quarterly-data-dashboards.
NEW reports (January 2025)
Don’t miss new reports on oesophago-gastric, prostate, and bowel cancer out this month. These, together with all cancer (and other) reports and infographics commissioned by HQIP, can be found here: HQIP reports.
More about the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN)
‘In 2023, Professor Peter Johnson, National Clinical Director for Cancer at NHS England acknowledged the transformative power of healthcare data, saying: “We’re in the middle of a real data revolution in the health service”. It goes without saying that the clinical audit community plays a pivotal role in that ‘data revolution’. However, to best realise the potential of data in healthcare, it too is going through a transformation.’
Read more about this ′umbrella approach′ to clinical audit in an article on page 19 of HQIP’s online quality improvement magazine: CORNERSTONE.
See also: National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) programme webpage.