Breast Cancer
(asked on 22nd October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and (b) NHS England on the potential merits of a national secondary breast cancer audit.
The Department, along with stakeholders, is currently reviewing the proposal of a secondary breast cancer audit.
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme on behalf of NHS England and the devolved administrations. The programme currently consists of over 30 national clinical audits, six clinical outcome review programmes and the National Joint Registry.
The existing audit of breast cancer in older women does include some sections on women with metastatic breast cancer. The latest audit is available at the following link: