National Lung Cancer Audit Update

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National Lung Cancer Audit Update

• National Clinical Audit Support Programme
• lucada_at_ic.nhs.uk
• Update January 2007

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National Lung Cancer Audit Current status
(31.01.07)

• Healthcare commission funding secure until April
  2009
• Deadline for 2006 data collection June 2007
• 169 Hospitals from 133 Trusts (from all 34
  networks) have entered data (expected number of
  hospitals approx 200)
• 32,878 patient records on system
• Reports available on-line your centre compared
  to national averages
• First annual report published December 2006 (on
  2005 data)
• Nursing element under development
• Main problem is data completeness

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National Lung Cancer Auditpartners structure
Healthcare Commission
National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP)
Implementation Group (Project Team)
RCP
The IC
Clinical Reference Group (Intercollegiate Lung
Cancer Group)
Information Group
Users Group
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Implementation Group

• The Information Centre for health and social care
  (NCASP)
• RCP (Clinical Effectiveness Evaluation Unit)
• NHS Connecting for Health
• Healthcare Commission
• DoH Cancer Policy Team (Cancer Waits Peer
  Review)
• Cancer Registries

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LUCADA National Mandates

• Healthcare Commission
• Participation part of core standards in annual
  health-check from 2005/06 onwards
• Outcomes part of developmental standards from
  2006/077
• Cancer Peer Review participation in NCASP
  cancer audits and collection of LUCADA dataset is
  expected in current round mandatory in next
  round
• Outcome data to become part of next round of Peer
  Review
• NICE Guidance specifically mandates LUCADA
• DoH Cancer Policy Team monitoring process and
  findings very carefully
• Professional/Peer pressure as a high profile
  project within the Royal College of Physicians

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National Lung Cancer AuditRecruitment
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Total number of cases submitted by quarter to
31/12/2006
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Status of organisation data submission January
2007

• Status Total of Subtotal
• New 3 2
• Active 56 33
• Submitting again after gt3months 14 8
• Not submitted for 3 months 17 10
• Not submitted for gt4 months 80 47
• Subtotal 169    
• Redundant codes 23    
• Grand Total 192    

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Data Completeness (2005)