The NLCA publishes a collection of dashboards, as an interactive web application, that enable users to explore results for individual NHS providers in England.
The State of the Nation dashboard provides a national perspective on the patterns of lung cancer care across England. It currently reports data spanning Q1 2022 – Q4 2022 (1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022) and will be updated annually. It presents performance indicators published in our State of the Nation report, to support the work of NHS England, integrated care boards (ICBs), cancer alliances and NHS trusts.
We publish two complementary dashboards. The data quality dashboard provides a local perspective on the completeness of data available on people with lung cancer at individual NHS organisations, and shines a spotlight on areas where improvements are needed. Good quality data is essential for the audit to produce reliable and robust information. The dashboard currently reports data spanning Q1 2022 – Q4 2022 (1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022) and will be updated on an annual basis.
The quarterly report dashboard describes patterns of lung cancer care over time. It presents performance indicators for a 3-year time period, and currently reports information spanning Q1 2021 – Q4 2023 (1st January 2021 – 31st December 2023) for NHS trusts in England. It will be updated every three months. Performance indicators were selected from the 2024 State of the Nation report. The quarterly dashboard now includes a new tab which shows results at cancer alliance level. The intended audience is NHS trusts; the dashboard supporting them to track progress alongside local quality improvement activities. For full details of updated content and functionality released with this version, please refer to the Updates tab provided with the dashboards.
The data tables for the information in the State of the Nation Report provide detailed results on the care received by people diagnosed in England and Wales in 2022.
We have released a revised data tables file (published on 6th June 2024). If you downloaded a version of this spreadsheet before this date, please delete your saved copy and replace it with version v3. The earlier version of the data tables contained an error which occurred when the provider level results were compiled from the output of our statistical software. The error resulted in performance indicator values being allocated to the wrong NHS trust in a number of cases. The performance indicator results published on the online dashboard were not affected by the error.
Please refer to the Methodology Supplement for information about how the statistics for NHS providers were produced.
Data source used in the State of the Nation report:
For people diagnosed in England, the datasets used to produce the information in the report are collated by the National Disease Registration Service (NDRS). For people diagnosed in Wales, the NLCA dataset is captured through a national system, Cancer Information System for Wales (CaNISC).
The NLCA use data for English NHS trusts from the Rapid Cancer Registration Dataset (RCRD). This dataset is made available more quickly than the complete cancer registration dataset, but the speed of production means it does not have complete coverage of all people diagnosed with lung cancer in England during the reporting period. For more information regarding the RCRD, please visit https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs/data/data-sets/rcrd.
The report allocates patients to English NHS organisations based on the “trust at diagnosis”. The allocation of patients to NHS trusts is based on the best information available when the RCRD is produced; this can result in some misallocation of patients, particularly to tertiary centres which do not typically diagnose large numbers of people with lung cancer.