Clinical Quality Monitoring and Improvement
Clinical audit data is essential to provide cancer services with evidence of quality and equity of care. In SCAN we have been collecting high quality cancer audit data for well over a decade and this allows us to scrutinise the quality of cancer care throughout SCAN in order to improve patient care and outcomes for cancer patients.
QPI reporting, National and Regional
Annual reporting against QPIs for all networks and health boards, has been mandated by the Scottish Government in 2012 (CEL 06). With three-yearly national reporting supported by Public Health Scotland. Results in SCAN are subjected to expert clinical review to identify recommendations required for implementing improvements in accordance with the CEL. Action plans are completed by each Health Board in SCAN in order to document progress.
The SCAN Audit team and Cancer Information Analysts throughout SCAN dedicate their time to meticulous data collection, analysis and reporting. Complete and accurate data is essential to be able to measure standards of care, outcome of treatment and equity of cancer treatments throughout SCAN.
In addition to the mandatory QPI reports produced annually for each of the tumour sites, SCAN Audit staff have provided data for numerous clinical audit and quality improvement projects.
The SCAN Audit Reporting Schedule for 2023/24 can be found below:
