The NATCAN team were delighted to accept an invitation from colleagues from the organisation, useMYdata, to deliver a webinar, which formed part of a number of umbrella events which were delivered to mark National Patient Data Day (#NPaDD) on Wednesday the 24th of June 2026.
NATCAN’s webinar took place on Monday the 22nd of June and included a number of presentations by NATCAN members: Julie Nossiter (Director of Operations), Lauren Dixon (Clinical Fellow), Verity Walker (Project Manager) and Vikki Hart (Senior Project Manager).
The team were pleased to be joined by Frank Burroughs (Chair of the National Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Audit’s Patient and Public Involvement Forum), who shared with the audience, his lived experience of living beyond Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (a form of blood cancer), as well as his observations of collaborating with NATCAN in using existing national cancer data sets to improve care and outcomes.
Also shared during the webinar, was a short film featuring Christine, a member of the National Pancreatic Cancer Audit’s Patient and Public Involvement Forum. In her film (which was co-produced with colleagues at Pancreatic Cancer UK), Christine shares her experience of receiving a pancreatic cancer diagnosis and appeals to healthcare care teams to refer to data being shared by the audit, in order to better understand their position.
NATCAN’s webinar was entitled ‘Embedding the patient voice in the centre of a national quality improvement programme: Learning from the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre.’ To view the recording and presentation slides here.
useMYdata are “UK’s only independent movement of patients, relatives and carers focussed on the use of patient data, with an aim to promote the benefits of using patient data to save lives and improve outcomes” (useMYdata, 2026). If you are interested in finding out more about their work, visit the useMYdata web pages.