Merseyside & Cheshire Cancer Network Dashboard

Background
The National Awareness and Early Detection Initiative-NAEDI- was announced in the Cancer
Reform Strategy (CRS) and is being led by Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director
and Harpel Kumar the Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK. Cancer Networks are well placed
to provide leadership for prevention and early diagnosis. Cancer Networks and PCTs are
expected to undertake a baseline assessment that will inform Network and PCT Strategic
Commissioning Plans to ensure effective progress in this area based on local needs.
A Cancer Dashboard
The cancer network have developed performance measures that include baseline measures but
also add further quality to information that is appropriate for PCTs and GP practices and we want
to embed these into a more robust cancer dashboard using and testing measures. We see this as
a way of assessing current baselines within PCTs and also practices but will also enable us to
analyse performance regularly.
The cancer dashboard will be outcome driven; each PCT will be asked to complete a template
with the Early Detection and Awareness Strategy lead team. We will agree milestones with PCTs
and assist them in supporting the gathering of evidence for the individual measures, including
measures by practice. We envisage that action plans will be developed and adopted by PCT
boards as appropriate and recommendations will be made to commissioners, these
recommendations will be more likely to be considered as they will be evidence based. A key
element of the cancer dashboard will be the development of a database that PCTs and practices
can access to review performance and to create reports.
The cancer dashboard will:
Collate primary care equity audits for urgent referrals in the PCT by practice- this will
include, review of referring patterns linked to deprivation, number of referrals, cancer
yield. This is different than the primary care audits.
Capture data within templates for survival, mortality, incidence, screening and staging
data and will identify key trends and variations.
Provide PCT reporting in a template that will demonstrate compliance with national and
local baseline assessments identified within the Cancer Reform Strategy.
Provide information about screening performance at GP practice and PCT level,
templates for GP practices will be made available.
Capture action plans to enable Commissioners to make decisions on services.
Test other performance measures around commissioning such as length of stay analysis
and other commissioning priorities.
We believe that the cancer dashboard will enhance the PCTs ability to demonstrate their
progress on world class commissioning (WCC) and quality, innovation, productivity and
prevention (QUIPP)
Dr Daniel Seddon- Early detection and prevention lead
Paul Mackenzie- Health Inequalities Manager
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