Scope

Description of Change

 

This Standard covers the data items for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT), listed in NHS England Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) Data Set V 3.0.2, and additional items to reflect NHS Wales reporting.

 

 

 

Actions Required

 

Actions for the NHS Wales Informatics Service:

 

•     To apply this Standard with immediate effect (or as soon as practicable following necessary updates to ChemoCare).

•     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: 

 

Health boards are expected to continue with ‘business as usual’ namely, to collect and report data using existing national systems, i.e. CaNISC, ChemoCare, 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. 

 

From 2021 treatment providers will aim to supply treatment details, where possible, of the SACT data items held within their Chemocare system, until such time that a new e-prescribing solution for Wales is in use and will be able to collect and report the SACT data standard in full. Minimal setting changes with the current ChemoCare systems may be required to collect and report data as set out in this Standard. Timelines and processes for implementation of this data standard will be progressed through the All Wales SACT Group.

  

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.