National Clinical Audit Support Programme: the Context

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National Clinical Audit Support Programmethe
Context

• Steve Dean
• Project Manager, Cancer Audits
• NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre

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National Clinical Audit Support Programme

• NCASP transferred from the NHS IA to the newly
  established NHS Health Social Care Information
  Centre on April 1st 2005
• NCASP commissioned by Healthcare Commission
  through the NHS Health Social Care Information
  Centre
• NCASP engages with relevant professional bodies
  RCP for LUCADA BAHNO for DAHNO
• Collaborative approach project management
  clinical leadership IT system user interface
  reporting
• Bowel audit rollout during 2005/06 (with ACP)

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NCASP Context Healthcare Commission

• Potential further cancer audit development
• Breast
• Upper GI
• Considering formal link between audit Trust
  assessment process discussion with National
  Directors

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NCASP Context Peer Review

• Unambiguous links between peer review and
  participation in NCASP cancer audits
• Manual for Cancer Services 2004
• the network-wide minimum dataset should include
  the data items required for the National Clinical
  Audit Support Programme

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NCASP Context NICE Guidance

• Lung Cancer (Feb 2005)
• many guidelines auditable through LUCADA
• Head and Neck (Nov 2004)
• DAHNO will substantially improve the data
  available on treatment outcomes

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NCASP Context Public Accounts Committee

• Jan 2005 support for the continued
• development of a database NCASPfor cancer
  diagnosis and treatment in order to set
  priorities for improvement

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NCASP Context NHS Connecting for Health

• Participation in NCASP audits does not change as
  a result of the development of NHS Connecting for
  Health (formerly known as NPfIT) and associated
  systems
• Links being made to ensure incorporation of data
  collection facility into LSP systems

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NCASP Context Secondary Uses Service (SUS)

• NCASP audit facility included in SUS development
  programme
• Any change in mechanism for data collection will
  not affect the continuity of, or participation
  in, the NCASP audits

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NCASP Context National Audit

• DH
• England
• Healthcare Commission
• England Wales
• Professional Bodies
• England, Wales, Scotland N.Ireland