Introduction
The purpose of the National Kidney Cancer Audit (NKCA) is to evaluate the patterns of care and outcomes for people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England and Wales and to support services to improve the quality of care for these patients.
The NKCA interactive dashboard is the product of a year-long development process that took place during 2024, following a successful pilot project by the National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA).
The dashboard is subject to ongoing iterative development and we therefore welcome suggestions and feedback, which can help guide changes made in future releases.
A second phase of development is underway, during which we will seek feedback more broadly, consulting with a wide range of stakeholders, including PPI representatives, to ensure the dashboards continue to meet the needs of our end users.
A new feature from 10th April onwards (already available for the lung audit) is the opportunity to download a summary report of a Trust’s data across all metrics, with graphs, to enable data sharing more easily.
Overview of dashboards
The data quality metrics in this report provide an overview of the quality of key data items for 28,458 people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England between 1st October 2021 and 30th September 2024.
The performance indicators (first treatment within 31 days of decision to treat / first treatment within 62 days of urgent referral) in this report include 13,000 people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England between 1st October 2021 and 31st December 2023 who received treatment.
A guide to using the dashboards is available here
Last updated: 10 April 2025, 8:14am