NKCA State of the Nation Report 2024
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The National Kidney Cancer Audit (NKCA) aims to evaluate the patterns of care and outcomes for people with kidney cancer in England and Wales, using routinely collected data and to support services to improve their care quality.
This State of the Nation report aims to help NHS organisations to benchmark their kidney cancer care against measurable standards, to identify unwarranted variation in measures of processes and outcomes, and to describe national levels and patterns of these measures in England and Wales.
This year it includes people diagnosed with kidney cancer between January 2017 to December 2021 in England, and January 2022 to December 2022 in Wales. It reports on eight performance indicators for England and four for Wales outlined in the NKCA Quality Improvement Plan 2024. The report also describes the national picture and variation between NHS trusts in England/Health Boards in Wales.
Findings in the report lead to five recommendations to drive improvements in the quality of kidney cancer care.
Future reports will evaluate change in care and outcomes over time, as well as variation between organisations.
Last updated: 11 September 2024, 9:55am