LWBC submission monitoring dashboard

The Living with and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) suite of reports have been designed to support trust data collection teams, facilitate data improvement work and to enable clinicians and management boards to understand the quality of their submissions.

The purpose of this project is to provide a visual representation of trust submissions as well as numbers and proportion of the submissions, grouped by Year and Cancer Alliances and type for the whole of England.

Please read the relevant sections of the COSD User Guide for further detail on data collection.

This primary audience for this dashboard will be the NHSE Cancer Programme, NDRS Data Liaison Managers and Cancer Alliance LWBC/Personalised Care Leads. Lead Cancer Nurses and/or NHS Trust personalised care leads, MDT coordinators and Trust/Alliance Cancer Information analysts may also find use for the tool. 

Note: This dashboard is a submission monitoring tool ONLY and includes trusts that have not submitted data therefore the numbers may differ from the other LWBC dashboards.

The Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset (COSD) supports national cancer registration and associated analysis (at local, regional, national, and international level) in addition to other national cancer audit programmes. All NHS providers of cancer services in England have been required to provide a monthly return using this data set for all cancer diagnoses since January 2013.

These reports have been designed to support trust data collection teams, facilitate data improvement work and to enable clinicians and management boards to understand their COSD conformance and the quality of their submissions.

Find out more about the COSD dataset.

These reports share a common methodology and are derived from an aggregated COSD dataset. The dataset includes counts in specific COSD metrics aggregated by month of diagnosis, provider and broad cancer groups based on ICD10. The dataset is refreshed monthly (beginning of third week) to include all submissions made by providers with dates of diagnosis in the current and previous year.

This dashboard provides access to operational and clinical data produced by NDRS. The data is derived from sensitive patient level information and is shared to support data quality improvement, service planning, and performance monitoring within health and care organisations.

While the data is de-personalised, small numbers or rare conditions may increase the risk of re-identification. Users must therefore take care when interpreting and sharing outputs.

By accessing this dashboard, users are expected to act in accordance with NHS information governance principles, the Caldicott Principles, and applicable data protection legislation, including the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR.

Users must ensure that:

• data is used only for legitimate health and care purposes
• data is not used to identify individuals, either directly or indirectly
• data is not shared, reproduced, or used outside authorised environments or without a clear business need
• any onward sharing is carefully considered, balancing the risk of disclosure against the intended benefit, and only shared with appropriate organisations or individuals
• outputs are interpreted appropriately, taking account of limitations in completeness, timeliness, and accuracy
• published or shared data relates only to their own organisation or is benchmarked against England-level data
• any published outputs meet anonymisation standards
• advice is sought from local Information Governance teams or a Caldicott Guardian where there is any uncertainty or risk

Permission must be sought in advance of any publication that includes Welsh and/or Scottish data from:

• email Public Health Wales
• email Public Health Scotland

When publishing data please ensure to follow the guidance for staff and stakeholders about how and when to acknowledge the use of NDRS data.

If you have any concerns about data use, interpretation, or disclosure risk, please email the NDRS team at nhsdigital.ndrsdatahub@nhs.net 

We intend this dashboard to be as useful as possible to the community and aim to improve them to meet user needs. Please send any feedback to nhsdigital.ndrsdatahub@nhs.net 

Please do not include sensitive or patient identifiable information.