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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2018-10-29more like thismore than 2018-10-29
answering body
Department of Health and Social Care more like this
answering dept id 17 more like this
answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
hansard heading Breast Cancer more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure hospital trusts meet the requirement to (a) collect and (b) submit data on secondary breast cancer. more like this
tabling member constituency Scunthorpe more like this
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Nic Dakin more like this
uin 184979 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2018-11-06more like thismore than 2018-11-06
answer text <p>140 hospital trusts submitted data for 2016 secondary breast cancer diagnoses through the Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset or Cancer Waiting Times data collection mechanisms. The total number submitted was 11,608, which is an increase on 2014 and 2015. This is accepted as being significantly below the estimated number of secondary breast cancers.</p><p> </p><p>The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) has published a number of guidance documents including flowcharts and clearer data definitions, providing specific advice on how to record cancer patients who are on a non-primary pathway. NCRAS is visiting trusts to support the use of this guidance.</p><p> </p><p>NCRAS is working closely with cancer charities to improve data collection and submission by hospital trusts, looking at how they can help improve completion rates and thus gain a better picture of the burden of recurrence and metastatic disease across the health service.</p><p> </p><p>To further support this work NCRAS has been sharing provider-level data on the completeness of recurrence reporting with individual NHS trusts since July 2016. These data are publicly available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_type_and_topic_specific_work/topic_specific_work/recurrence" target="_blank">http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_type_and_topic_specific_work/topic_specific_work/recurrence</a></p>
answering member constituency Winchester more like this
answering member printed Steve Brine remove filter
grouped question UIN 184978 remove filter
question first answered
less than 2018-11-06T15:35:09.05Zmore like thismore than 2018-11-06T15:35:09.05Z
answering member
4067
label Biography information for Steve Brine more like this
tabling member
4056
label Biography information for Nic Dakin more like this