CANCER OR SYMPTOMATIC BREAST REFERRAL PATIENT STATUS

The status of a REFERRAL REQUEST for a PATIENT referred with a suspected cancer, or referred with breast symptoms with cancer not originally suspected.

For the Cancer Outcomes and Services Data Set, CANCER OR SYMPTOMATIC BREAST REFERRAL PATIENT STATUS  can be recorded for all PATIENTS  (regardless of the referral route).

• For the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set,

  • CANCER OR SYMPTOMATIC BREAST REFERRAL PATIENT STATUS

     is the status of a REFERRAL REQUEST  for a PATIENT:

    • referred with a suspected cancer by a GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONER,  OPTOMETRIST  or NHS Screening Service

    • referred from any CARE PROFESSIONAL  with breast symptoms where cancer was not originally suspected or upgraded onto the 62 day period.

  • Where a diagnosis of cancer is subsequently made, data on First Definitive Treatment and subsequent treatments should be recorded for PATIENTS receiving NHS funded treatment in England.

    • NHS funded treatment in England refers to Health Care Provider   ORGANISATIONS within England who are treating PATIENTS with cancer who may have been referred from outside England (where the PATIENTS have  NHS NUMBERS which exist on the Personal Demographics Service and which can be used within the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set for transmission purposes).

  • Where PATIENTS with a diagnosis of cancer do NOT receive NHS funded treatment in England, or where the diagnosed condition is not within the NHS England list of cancer conditions, further data need not be collected. The full list of conditions can be found on the NHS England  website at: Cancer Waiting Times.