Cancer care - ovarian cancer quality performance indicators review: consultation

7. Survival

Improving survival forms an integral part of the National Cancer Quality Programme. Ovarian cancer survival analysis will be reported and analysed on a 3 yearly basis by Public Health Scotland (PHS). The specific issues which will be addressed will be identified by an expert group ahead of any analysis being undertaken, as per the agreed national cancer quality governance and improvement framework.

The Ovarian Cancer QPI Group has identified, during the QPI development process, the following issues for survival analysis:

• 1 year or 5 year survival rates

To ensure consistent application of survival analysis, it has been agreed that a single PHS analyst on behalf of all three regional cancer networks undertakes this work. Survival analysis is scheduled as per the national survival analysis and reporting timetable, agreed with the National Cancer Quality Improvement Board and Scottish Cancer Strategic Board. This reflects the requirement for record linkage and the more technical requirements of survival analyses which makes it difficult for individual Boards to undertake routinely and in a nationally consistent manner.