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Version: 0.0.6 | Published: 26 Jul 2023 | Updated: 666 days ago

National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service

Data Standard

Documentation

Description:
Data Resource Profile: National Cancer Registration Dataset: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/1/16/5476570 Data Resource Profile: The Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) dataset: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/1/15/5538002
Is Part Of:
NOT APPLICABLE

Coverage

Spatial:
England
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
> 10 YEARS
Physical Sample Availability:
NOT AVAILABLE
Pathway:
Integrated care record covering the whole cancer patient pathway.

Provenance

Origin

Purposes:
DISEASE REGISTRY
Sources:
  • EPR
  • ELECTRONIC SURVEY
  • LIMS
  • PAPER BASED
  • FREETEXT NLP
  • MACHINE GENERATED
  • OTHER
Collection Situations:
  • CLINIC
  • PRIMARY CARE
  • OUTPATIENTS
  • IN-PATIENTS
  • SERVICES
  • COMMUNITY
  • HOME
  • OTHER

Temporal

Accrual Periodicity:
IRREGULAR
Start Date:
01 January 1985
Time Lag:
VARIABLE

Accessibility

Access

Access Rights:
The Office for Data Release (ODR) is responsible for providing a common governance framework for responding to requests to access cancer registration data. Requests are reviewed in line with the confidentiality and data protection provisions in: the common law duty of confidentiality, data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation), 7 Caldicott principles, the Information Commissioner’s statutory data sharing code of practice, the national data opt-out programme. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accessing-public-health-england-data
Access Request Cost:
PHE applies charges on a full economic cost recovery basis for any work to prepare and release data through the ODR. All requests are charged on a project by project basis to reflect that the amount of work required to facilitate access to the data will differ. For the 2020/21 financial year, the unit cost per hour for ODR services is set at £415.80 (excluding VAT). Please note that unless a valid exemption applies, VAT will be charged at the prevailing rate at time of invoicing. Service charges are either ‘variable’ or ‘fixed’ as detailed: Service Costs: ODR review, contract execution and ongoing administration = £831.60 (fixed). Amendments to existing extant contracts (inclusive of ODR review and management of contract variations) = £415.80 (fixed). Data preparation, extraction and quality assurance of the data (applicable to new applications and amendments) or bespoke data linkage = charges will be quoted based on the complexity of the request and the frequency at which the data will be disseminated and/or bespoke linkage will be applied (variable).
Delivery Lead Time:
VARIABLE
Jurisdictions:
GB-EAW
Data Controller:
Public Health England
Data Processor:
Not Applicable

Usage

Data Use Limitations:
RESEARCH SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS
Resource Creators:
  • This work uses data that has been provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. The data are collated
  • maintained and quality assured by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service
  • which is part of Public Health England (PHE). Access to the data was facilitated by the PHE Office for Data Release.
Is Referenced By:

Format and Standards

Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
  • LOCAL
  • OPCS4
  • READ
  • SNOMED CT
  • SNOMED RT
  • DM+D
  • NHS NATIONAL CODES
  • ODS
  • ICD10
  • ICD9
  • ICDO3
Languages:
en
Formats:
  • csv
  • dta

Enrichment and Linkage

Qualified Relations:
  • NCRAS has been linked to a number of other collections and datasets including: CPRD (GOLD & ARUM)
  • NHS Business Services Authority Prescribing Data
  • HES
  • ONS Civil Registration
  • Molecular Data
  • MINAP
  • NICOR
  • as well as a number of standing cohorts including UK Biobank.
Derivations:
  • There are approximately 200 derived fields across the NCRAS data tables that support privacy conserving methods to be implemented (e.g. age at diagnosis in 5 year age bands
  • or full dates truncated to month and year
  • or year alone). In addition
  • fields such as STAGE_BEST
  • ROUTE_CODE
  • FINAL_ROUTE and Charlson Scores are derived based on published methodologies.

Observations

Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
300,000 patients per year
Count
01 January 2020