Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2024: technical report

Glossary

• CHI – The Community Health Index (CHI) is a register of all patients in NHS Scotland.
• SMR01 – A database held by Public Health Scotland that contains information on general/acute inpatient and day cases.
• SMR06 – The Scottish Cancer Registry (SMR06) cancer-related information from across NHS Scotland.
• Cancer Groupings – The cancer groupings used in the survey have been created to allow analysis of the survey results by Less Survivable Cancers as defined in the Cancer Strategy for Scotland 2023 to 2033, while maintaining as much comparability with previous surveys as possible and ensuring that each cancer group contains a sufficiently large number of survey responses to allow for robust analysis. They are defined in terms of the following ICD10 codes:
  • Breast: C50
  • Colorectal / lower gastrointestinal: C17 to C21 and C26
  • Gynaecological: C51 to C58
  • Haematological: C81 to C83, C85, C86, C88 and C90-C96
  • Head and neck: C00 to C14, C30 to C32 and C73
  • Less Survivable Cancers: C16, C22, C25, C70 to C72 and C75
  • Lung: C33, C34 and C45
  • Oesophageal: C15
  • Other: C23, C24, C37, C38, C40, C41, C46 to C49, C69, C74 and C76 to C80
  • Prostate: C61
  • Skin: C43
  • Urological: C60 and C62 to C68
• ICD codes – The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a standardised set of diagnosis classification codes.
• PBPP – The Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (PBPP) is a patient advocacy panel which scrutinises applications for access to NHS Scotland health data for non direct care.