A three-way collaboration between NHS Education for Scotland Digital Service (now called the NHS Education for Scotland Technology Service), NHS Lothian, and the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme, as part of a Scottish Government commission to develop a cancer treatment summary.
This is a data-scoping study supporting the NHS Education for Scotland Digital Service team to understand what data is available against the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme-defined minimum clinical dataset for cancer treatment summaries in head and neck cancer. The understanding from the project will inform the design and development of a cancer treatment summary to support clinical care and patient communication in this area in the future. This project with DataLoch will deliver an assessment of the data quality, data content and data source.
Project output:
This work was part of the first phase of a Scottish Government commission and informed the technical development of an electronic cancer treatment summary for patients. There is continued commitment to a national approach to cancer treatment summaries: see the cancer action plan 2023-2026 on the Scottish Government website.
