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THE PATIENT PATHWAY
in Bury South
Around
This CCG: NHS Bury. Former PCT: Bury. This LA: Bury. This NHS Trust:
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
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We have chosen data most relevant to your constituency.
The following CCG(s)cover your area: NHS Bury
Compared to average:
June 2015
Measures are referred to as ‘similar’ when the difference
from the average is not statistically significant.
Worse
cancer cases
per year1
460
cancer deaths
per year2
Former Bury PCT
EMERGENCY
PRESENTATION3
WAITING FOR A
DIAGNOSTIC TEST4
The % of patients diagnosed through
emergency routes. English average: 23.7%
This CCG: 24.7%
Diagnosis through emergency routes may
correlate closely with poor survival: ensure
your CCG is improving (see reverse)
The % of patients waiting 6 weeks or less.
Official target: 99%. English average: 99%.
This CCG: 99.2%
Timely access to diagnostic tests
improves outcomes: ensure your CCG
maintains high standards (see reverse)
PREVENTION
DIAGNOSIS
SMOKING RATE5
EARLY STAGE OF
DIAGNOSIS7
The % of staged cancers diagnosed early
(at stage 1 and 2). English average: 54.4%
This CCG: 51.6%
Early diagnosis of cancer gives
patients more effective treatment
options and improves their chances
of surviving the disease: ensure your
CCG is improving (see reverse)
The % of adults smoking.
English average: 18.4%
This LA: 18.2%
Smoking causes nearly a
fifth (19%) of all cancer cases
in the UK: ensure your LA
is improving (see reverse)
SMOKING RELATED
DEATHS6
Rate of deaths caused by smoking
per 100,000 people.
English average: 290
This LA: 344
Smoking is the largest single cause of
cancer in the UK: ensure your local
authority is improving (see reverse)
WAITING FOR
RADIOTHERAPY9
REFERRAL FOR
TREATMENT8
The % of patients receiving first cancer treatment
within 62 days of an urgent GP referral.
Official target: 85%. English average: 83.2%.
This CCG: 81.4%
Prompt treatment is linked to clinical success:
ensure your CCG is improving (see reverse)
RESEARCH10
The % of cancer patients that said taking part in
research had been discussed with them.
English average: 31%. This NHS Trust: 29.5%
Research is crucial to advance our understanding
of how to prevent, diagnose and treat disease:
ensure your NHS Trust is improving (see reverse)
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The % of patients receiving radiotherapy within
31 days of first treatment. Official target: 94%
English average: 97.5%. This CCG: 100.0%
In England, meeting radiotherapy waiting
time targets saves 2500 lives a year: ensure
your CCG is improving (see reverse)
TREATMENT
turn over to help beat cancer sooner...
DATA
This profile has been compiled using data which
are routinely collected as part of patient care.
Better data informs us how well cancer treatments
are doing: ensure timely access to data (see reverse)
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
SUMMARY OF ACTIONS
Smoking is still the single largest cause of preventable
death, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths in the UK
every year. Tobacco is a uniquely harmful product which
kills up to two thirds of its long-term users. More needs
to be done to bring smoking rates down.
ASK: You could ask Bury LA if it has signed up to the
Local Government Declaration for tobacco control and
has a tobacco control plan that encourages smokers
to quit.
When a patient is diagnosed as an emergency, this can
mean their cancer has progressed to a later stage and is
harder to treat.
ASK: You could ask NHS Bury CCG how it is planning
to reduce this figure.
Early diagnosis is crucial to improving cancer survival,
and quick access to diagnostic tests is important for the
early diagnosis of cancer.
ASK: You could ask NHS Bury CCG how it is planning
to maintain this good performance.
Reducing the number of patients diagnosed at a late
stage is crucial. Action along the diagnostic pathway is
required to spot cancer early and treat it quickly.
ASK: You could ask NHS Bury CCG what they are
planning to do to ensure more patients will get diagnosed at an earlier stage.
The speed at which patients receive their first treatment
can be an indicator of clinical success.
ASK: You could ask NHS Bury CCG how it is planning
to improve cancer waiting times.
Experts believe that radiotherapy contributes to around
4 in 10 cases where cancer is cured. Radiotherapy is becoming more sophisticated to provide better outcomes
and fewer side effects.
ASK: You could ask NHS Bury CCG what they are
doing to maintain access to radiotherapy and plan for
the future.
Around half of cancer patients who report not being
asked about participating in research say that they would
like to have been.
ASK: You could ask Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS
Trust what their plans are to ensure more people are
informed about research opportunities.
It is important for researchers to be able to access data
in reasonable amounts of time.
ASK: You could ask Public Health England and the
Health & Social Care Information Centre how they
are ensuring timely access to data for research and
analysis.
SURVIVAL
END OF LIFE CARE
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REFERENCES
1. National Cancer Intelligence Network Cancer e-Atlas.
Incidence (annual average of cases for 2008-2010).
Available at: http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_information_
tools/eatlas/pct/atlas.html?select=Eav&indicator=i0
2. National Cancer Intelligence Network Cancer e-Atlas.
Mortality (annual average of deaths for 2009-2011). Available
at: http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_information_tools/eatlas/
pct/atlas.html?select=Eav&indicator=i0
3. National Cancer Intelligence Network. GP Profiles for
Cancer. Routes to diagnosis (patients diagnosed in 2008).
Available at: http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_information_
tools/profiles/gp_profiles
4. NHS England. Waiting for a diagnostic test (based on
average of 12 months’ data covering April 2013 - March
2014). The tests included are MRI, CT, non-obstetric
ultrasound, colonoscopy, flexi-sigmoidoscopy, cystoscopy
and gastroscopy. Available at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/
statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-timesand-activity/
5. Public Health England. Smoking rates (2013). Available at:
http://www.tobaccoprofiles.info/
6. Public Health England. Smoking related deaths (2011-2013).
Available at: http://www.tobaccoprofiles.info/
7. These data were compiled by the Statistical Information
Team at Cancer Research UK using the latest data from
Public Health England for 2012 based on the proportion of
cancers diagnosed early (at stage 1 and 2) of those where
stage at diagnosis is known, https://www.cancertoolkit.
co.uk/Home/PublicUsers
8. NHS England. 62 Day treatment (based on average of 4
quarters’ data covering April 2014 - March 2015). Available
at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/category/statistics/
commissioner-waiting-cancer/
9. Department of Health. Percentage of patients receiving
radiotherapy within 31 days as second or subsequent
treatment (based on average of 4 quarters’ data covering
April 2013 - March 2014). Available at: http://www.england.
nhs.uk/statistics/category/statistics/commissioner-waitingcancer/
10.Quality Health. National Cancer Patient Experience Survey
(2014). Data provided on request. Website: https://www.
quality-health.co.uk/surveys/national-cancer-patientexperience-survey
For more information on other routes to diagnosis or other
treatments please contact [email protected]