National Ovarian Cancer Audit Report 2024 (NOCA)
The National Ovarian Cancer Audit, part of the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN), has published a State of the Nation 2024 report on care received by women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in England in 2021 and in Wales in 2022. The audit’s first annual assessment of NHS services, it aims to share good practice and highlight where care can be improved.
The report contains analysis of performance indicators covering four healthcare quality improvement goals:
- Increase the proportion of patients receiving timely diagnosis and treatment decisions
- Increase the proportion of patients receiving surgery
- Increase the proportion of patients receiving chemotherapy
- Improve rates of survival and reduce variation in survival
It also contains five recommendations:
- Reduce the current rate of emergency admissions
- Review the percentage of women with stage 2 to 4, or unstaged ovarian cancer who receive treatment (any type), explore and address the reasons behind the variation
- Review the use of platinum-based chemotherapy in women with epithelial ovarian cancer (stage 2 to 4, or unstaged), explore and address the reasons behind the variation
- Review one-year survival in women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, explore and address the reasons behind the variation
- Improve the completeness and quality of data items recorded in the national cancer datasets.
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