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Cancer datasets

  • Last modified date:
    8 February 2007

Improving the quality of cancer services is an important part of the Government's vision for a modern NHS, and various initiatives are underway to deliver the standards that patients rightly expect and which clinicians want to provide.

The need for national cancer datasets to ensure consistency of information collection across healthcare boundaries was identified as a high priority in the Cancer Information Strategy, published in June 2000.

From 2002, the intention is to capture patient level data, to be submitted to a national database. The national database is currently being developed by the NHSIA http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/cancer/pages/default.asp, in close consultation with the NHS and the Department of Health.

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