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Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Data Set

Captures activity data relating to the treatment of cancer with medicines.

Documentation

About this standard

Publisher
NHS England
Also known as
Also known as SACT.
Reference code
DCB1533 Amd 80/2018
Publication date
06/12/2018
Status
Active
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Standard type
  • Collections
  • Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.

Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.

Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.

Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.

Contact point

Using this standard

Applies to
  • Cancer centres
  • All providers of NHS commissioned systemic anti-cancer therapy services.
Impacts on
Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes. All commissioners of NHS funded systemic anti-cancer therapy services should review impact on business processes and enable consequential changes.
Associated medias
Conformance date
01/12/2019
Effective from
06/12/2018

Topics and care settings

Topic
  • Data definitions and terminologies
  • Demographics
  • Prescribing
  • Reference data
Care setting
Hospital
Dependencies

No known dependencies.

Related standards

No known related standards.

Review Information

Scope
NHS Services
Sponsor

Dr Jem Rashbass, Director for National Disease Registration, Public Health England.

Senior Responsible Officer

Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer, Public Health England.

Business Lead
Andrew Murphy, Head of Cancer Datasets, National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England.
Approval date
22/11/2018
Post Implementation review Date
31/08/2020
Legal authority
  • Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

    This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

  • NHS standard contract

    This collection is published under the NHS Standard Contract.

More information

This information standard specifies a data set for use at both national and local levels to generate secondary uses information about systemic anti-cancer therapy treatment, covering neoplasms coded within ICD-10 diagnosis codes range C00 - C97, D00 - D48 and E85.9.

Providers of systemic anti-cancer therapy services are required to provide a monthly submission of this data set to Public Health England.

This release introduces:

  • new data items
  • amendments to existing data items
  • deletions of data items
  • clearer definitions and expanded formats to improve the quality of submitted data
  • the removal of the intention to change to xml submission.

These relate to:

  • local patient identifier, patient family and given names
  • organisation codes to reflect “ANANA”
  • person stated gender code
  • diagnoses using SNOMED CT
  • adjunctive therapy type
  • performance status (adult aged 19 years and older)
  • administration measurement per actual dose
  • a series of new outcome summaries, measuring
    • curative (completed)
    • curative (not completed)
    • non curative.

In addition, data items have been introduced to enable the conduct of two pilots relating to:

  • dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d)
  • regimen outcome summary – toxicity.

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