Performance Indicators

 

Performance Indicators Commentary

The diagnosis year 2020 performance indicators for the registries of the UKIACR are available here.

You can click on the various tabs to view the corresponding comparison tables. You can use the search box above the table to filter it, or click on any column in the table to sort by it (if applicable). Please read the notes under each table, as sometimes the data is not directly comparable.

A detailed commentary of the findings for each registry may be found at this link.

An Excel download of the complete results tables may be found at this link.

Old Performance Indicators Reports

Reports are also available for preceding years. Use the links below to access these reports:

Executive summary
Target not reached or not in line with other registries
Target attained
  1. For England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  2. Staging target: > 70%
  3. Core Patient information includes name, address, postcode, sex, date of birth, ethnicity, date of death, unique health identifier
  4. Core Tumour information includes date of diagnosis, site of primary growth, type of growth, behaviour of growth, basis of diagnosis
  5. DCO and zero survivor rate targets: <2%
  6. Extraction dates for last years indicators: England 04/09/2021, Scotland 22/02/2021, Northern Ireland 16/09/2021 & Wales 06/08/2022
Extraction dates for this years indicators: England 01/10/2022, Scotland 04/02/2022, Northern Ireland 09/02/2023, Wales 06/05/2023
Notation '-' denotes not available (average excludes corresponding country)
For England, 0.0% reflects the unavailability of screening data to NCRAS. NCRAS continued to work with the screening programme to try and obtain an extract to use to pilot a new method of loading screening data files on the Encore ‘waterfall’
Registrations and Timeliness
No. of Cases (current year) and percentage change vs. previous year (persons)
Statistically significant difference in 2020 compared to 2017-2019
No statistical significant difference in 2020 compared to 2017-2019
Percentage (%) of death certificate only cases (persons) for 2020
A statistic highlighted in red means that the target was not reached or was not in line with other registries
Percentage (%) of zero survival cases (persons)
Percentage (%) of microscopically verified cases (persons)
Percentage (%) of non-specificity of morphology codes for cases which are microscopically verified
Mortality : Incidence ratios (2020)
Completeness of the dataset (%) - demographics and diagnostic details
% of all cancer cases (xnmsc)
% of Cases treated with Surgery
% of Cases treated with Radiotherapy
% of Cases treated with Teletherapy
% of Cases treated with Chemotherapy
% of Cases for other treatments
Country average (population) Country average (country) England Scotland Northern Ireland Wales
% of Cases treated with Hormone Therapy
All invasive xnmsc 12.9% 14.6% 12.5% 16.2% 18.4% 11.4%
Breast 39.9% 50.0% 36.8% 64.6% 67.3% 31.3%
Prostate 51.6% 52.7% 51.4% 54.7% 56.4% 48.3%
% of Cases treated with Brachytherapy
All invasive xnmsc 1.2% 0.9% 1.2% 0.5% 1.0% 0.9%
Breast 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
Prostate 1.6% 1.7% 1.6% 0.8% 3.8% 0.4%
% of Cases treated with Watch & Wait/Active Monitoring
All invasive xnmsc 8.1% 6.4% 8.6% 4.3% 4.1% 8.8%
Prostate 25.9% 19.2% 27.5% 16.8% 9.2% 23.5%
% of Cases treated with Palliative Care
All invasive xnmsc 9.3% 7.2% 10.1% 2.6% 7.8% 8.2%
Specific cohorts where treatment completeness data is expected (%)
Quality of treatment data
Country average (population) Country average (country) England Scotland Northern Ireland Wales
Surgery (denominator - all tumours known to be treated with surgery, first recorded surgery for that tumour):
Date of surgery known 99.7% 99.9% 99.7% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Trust / hospital of surgery known 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Type of surgery known (OPCS4 code) 92.8% 74.5% 100.0% 0.0% 100.0% 98.1%
Teletherapy (denominator - all tumours known to be treated with teletherapy , first recorded teletherapy treatment for that tumour):
Date of teletherapy known 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Trust / hospital of teletherapy known 99.9% 99.4% 100.0% 100.0% 97.5% 100.0%
Fractions and dose known 89.8% 73.1% 96.7% 0.0% 97.5% 98.4%
Chemotherapy (denominator - all tumours known to be treated with chemotherapy, first recorded chemotherapy treatment for that tumour):
Date of chemotherapy known 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Trust / hospital of chemotherapy known 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Drug name or regimen known 75.8% 46.6% 86.5% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Radiotherapy (denominator - all tumours known to be treated with radiotherapy, take the first recorded radiotherapy event for that tumour):
Date of radiotherapy known 100.0% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 99.4% 100.0%
Trust / hospital of radiotherapy known 99.9% 99.0% 100.0% 100.0% 96.0% 100.0%
Breast cancer screening completeness (%)
Cervical cancer screening completeness (%)
Bowel cancer screening completeness (%)
Completeness of the dataset (%) - stage complete by cancer site groups summary (persons)
Completeness of the dataset (%) - grade complete by cancer site groups summary (persons)