Scope

Description of Change

 

This Standard covers the data items for Brain & Central Nervous System (CNS), listed in NHS England Cancer Outcome and Services Data set (COSD) V9.0 (which includes Pathology V4.0) for comparability, and additional items to reflect NHS Wales reporting.

 

The immediate use of this mandate will be used as a framework for the development of the CIS, therefore services/data providers should continue with ‘business as usual’ in terms of the data being collected and reported.

 

Actions Required

 

Actions for the NHS Wales Informatics Service:

 

•     To apply this Standard with immediate effect in the development of the CIS

•     Continue to make routine extracts available to the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU) for the purpose of cancer registration via existing means.

 

 

 

Actions for Health Boards/Trusts: 

 

There are no actions for health boards/trusts with regards to the changes in this Standard presently. However, health boards are expected to continue with ‘business as usual’ as it pertains to the existing Standard, namely, to collect and report data using existing national systems, i.e. CaNISC, PMS, WPAS, Cancer Tracking Module (Tracker 7) for the following:

 

 

•     National Cancer Audits for Wales - a Tier 1 Welsh Government requirement

•     Collection and reporting to the existing standards for cancer, the All Wales Core and Site-specific minimum reporting requirements. See Cancer Information Framework (sharepoint.com)

•     Collection and reporting of data required for Cancer Waiting Times and Single Cancer Pathway as per DSCNs issued. 

 

In conjunction with the above points for Health Boards/Trusts, it is also important to note that:

Interim changes are currently in development for WPAS and Cancer Tracking Module (Tracker 7) to support the single cancer pathway data collection.  

That data continues to be entered into the CWT fields within CaNISC, as many standard reports rely on the completion of those data items in report logic. Such reports continue to be used for many reporting purposes including national audit submissions.