Suspected Cancer Pathway – Core

Addendum

As a result of the publication of the Single Cancer Pathway standard, the new reporting approach consequently replaces the Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) and non-Urgent Suspected Cancer (nUSC) standards. The term Single was originally used for this standard to identify this pathway against the other pathways. As this will now be the only pathway going forward, the name of this standard has been amended to Suspected Cancer Pathway. The amended terminology is aligned with the latest release of the Welsh Health Circular (WHC) and Cancer Wait Times (CWT) guidance, in which this standard will be referred to as Suspected Cancer Pathway as of February 2021.

To ensure all Health Boards have a mutual understanding of the definitions outlined in the DSCN, please refer to the scenarios developed between DHCW and Health Boards here: https://dhcw.nhs.wales/information-services/information-standards/data-standards/data-standards-files/scp-scenarios-pdf/