Collect patient waiting times for cancer screening, treatment and care to meet national reporting requirements.

The monthly publication has been indefinitely postponed due to resource issues. Quarterly cancer waiting times data continue to be published at http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/ and the next cancer reports for quarter 2 and quarter 3 are due on 19 November 2014 and 18 February 2015 respectively. We will update users of any further developments via this publication calendar and on the NHS England statistics web site. Source agency: NHS England Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Cancer Waiting Times

Information on the waiting times of patients with suspected cancer and those subsequently diagnosed with cancer

Source agency: NHS England

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Statistics on Waiting Times for Suspected and Diagnosed Cancer Patients Annual Report

These reports provide information on the waiting times of people referred with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and subsequently told the outcome of their diagnosis, and treated for cancer by the NHS in England. This data is published on the NHS England website. Please follow the link below.

This dataset provides information on the waiting times of people referred by their GP (General Practitioner) with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those subsequently diagnosed with and treated for cancer by the NHS (National Health Service) in England.

Statistical release published by the Scottish Government detailing cancer waiting-time statistics for urgently-referred patients by tumour site and NHS board.

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Cancer Waiting Times, Scotland

From February 2021, data is only published for the suspected cancer pathway. Targets for the urgent and not via the urgent pathway have ceased and no new data will be collected or published for these pathways. The patients shown here are those newly diagnosed with cancer who started definitive treatment via the Urgent Suspected Cancer route. The national target for these patients is: at least 95 per cent of patients diagnosed with cancer, via the urgent suspected cancer route will start definitive treatment within 62 days of receipt of referral. Care should be taken when interpreting percentages, especially when dealing with small numbers.

The Cancer Outcome and Services Data set (COSD) has been the national standard for reporting cancer in the NHS in England since January 2013.

In January 2013 the COSD replaced the previous National Cancer Dataset as the new national standard for reporting cancer in the NHS in England. It incorporated a revised generic Cancer Registration Dataset (CRDS) and additional clinical and pathology site specific data items relevant to different tumour types.

The COSD specifies the items to be submitted electronically by service providers to the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) on a monthly basis. It replaces the existing monthly NCRAS upload and may include separate files from different hospital systems.

The COSD also identifies the items that the NCRAS will obtain from other sources such as Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer Screening Programmes and ONS. (Some items from these other datasets will be included in COSD provider submissions for patient identification and record matching.)

Data is submitted by NHS Providers of Cancer Services and will linked with data from other sources by the NCRAS at patient level using NHS number in order to compile the full dataset.

The waiting time of people referred by their GP with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those subsequently diagnosed with and treated for cancer, by London NHS hospital and Primary Care Trust (PCT).

The data contains information on the numbers of people waiting for treatment and performance against a range of key operational standards.

Source: Department of Health Cancer Waiting Times Database

In November 2020, 87 percent of patients with suspected cancer in England were seen by a specialist within fourteen days of a referral by a GP, lower than the NHS operational standard that 93 percent of patients should be seen within this timeframe. Since January 2018, the NHS waiting time target for cancer referral has only been met six times.

av_patient
Patient information - demographics and death details.

av_tumour
Tumour catalogue and characterisation for all patients with registerable tumour. Table's anon_tumour_id is used to link treatment tables also available in NCRAS. One row per tumour (av* table specific anon_tumour_id), per participant at the point of registration of that cancer/tumour with NCRAS.

av_treatment
Tumour linked catalogue of treatments and sites that provided them for all patients with registerable tumour.

av_imd
The Income Deprivation Domain (IMD table) measures the proportion of the population experiencing deprivation relating to low income. The definition of low income used includes both those people that are out-of-work and those that are in work but who have low earnings.

av_rtd
Routes to Diagnosis: cancer registration data are combined with Administrative Hospital Episode Statistics data, Cancer Waiting Times data and data from the cancer screening programmes. Using these datasets cancers registered in England which were diagnosed in 2006 to 2016 are categorised into one of eight Routes to Diagnosis. The methodology is described in detail in the British Journal of Cancer article 'Routes to Diagnosis for cancer - Determining the patient journey using multiple routine datasets'.

cwt The National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set supports the continued management and monitoring of waiting times.

sact
Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (chemotherapy detail) data for cancer participants from NHSE covering regimens between 04/2012 and 08/2022. One row per chemotherapy cycle, per tumour (SACT-specific anon_tumour_id), per participant.

rtds
The Radiotherapy Data Set (RTDS) standard (SCCI0111) is an existing standard that has required all NHS Acute Trust providers of radiotherapy services in England to collect and submit standardised data monthly against a nationally defined data set since 2009. The purpose of the standard is to collect consistent and comparable data across all NHS Acute Trust providers of radiotherapy services in England in order to provide intelligence for service planning, commissioning, clinical practice and research and the operational provision of radiotherapy services across England. Data is available from 01/04/2009. The data is linked at a patient level and can be linked to the latest available av_patient table.

ncras_did
The Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (DID) is a central collection of detailed information about diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients, extracted from local radiology information systems and submitted monthly. The DID captures information about referral source, details of the test (type of test and body site), demographic information such as GP registered practice, patient postcode, ethnicity, gender and date of birth, plus data items about different events (date of imaging request, date of imaging, date of reporting, which allows calculation of time intervals.

lucada_2013 The National Lung Can

Directly age standardised mortality rate from breast cancer for females in the respective time period per 100,000 registered female patients. March 2020: In addition to the changes in March 2019, the indicator production process has been fully automated. As a result there are two changes to this publication: 1) Data in this file are published for 2016-2018 only; all data is based on the most recent methodology. For the historic time series of this indicator please refer to the zip files in the June 2018 publication: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/clinical-indicators/ccg-outcomes-indicator-set/archive/ccg-outcomes-indicator-set---june-2018 Please note, neither version of the file contains data for 2015-2017; changes in the data processing meant the 2015 data was not comparable to the 2016 and 2017 data processed under the new method. 2) Data are run against CCGs which were in existence at the time of processing. As of the March 2019 release the processing of the Primary Care Mortality Database (PCMD) and the standard population used to calculate the indicator for new data periods changed; this file now contains only those data periods processed under the new method. For the historic time series of this indicator please refer to the June 2018 publication referenced above. Legacy unique identifier: P01819