Cancer Commissioning Toolkit
Registration | Updates and release notes | Acknowledgements
The Cancer Commissioning Toolkit has a role with the new NHS Commissioner and Provider landscape and is the first point of contact for Cancer Commissioners to benchmark the services they commission at National, NHS Trust, Primary Care Trust, GP practice and Clinical Commissioning Groups. It includes a wide range of high level indicators and profiles across the patient journey.
The types of data available include:
Incidence; Mortality; Survival; Smoking Cessation; Peer Review; Screening; Referrals; Waiting Times; Radiotherapy; National Audit; Cancer medicines; Place of death; Programme Budgeting.
Profiles now include:
PCT and GP practice level data, Routes to Diagnosis, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). The data within the Toolkit aims to assist Commissioners to identify patterns of care that can contribute to saving lives, give options regarding services ensuring value for money and share information to help improve patient experience.
For more information on Commissioning Cancer Services please download the brochure.
Launch and register for the Cancer Commissioning Toolkit
Registering to use the toolkit
To be eligible for access to the toolkit you must be employed by an NHS organisation or belong to one of the following non-NHS groups:
Table showing eligibility for access to the Cancer Commissioning Toolkit for NHS and non-NHS organisations
| NHS Organisations | Non-NHS Organisations |
| General practices |
Charities |
| Foundation / Care Trusts |
Pharma companies |
| Strategic Health Authorities (SHA) |
Management Consultancy (includes all other non-NHS organisations) |
| Primary Care Trust (PCT) |
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| Clinical Commissioning Groups |
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| Cancer Network |
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| Arms Length Bodies (including NCIN, NCAT, Cancer Registries, Department of Health, Information Centre, NHS Improvement, National Peer Review, National Cancer Research Institute, Public Health Observatory, NICE) |
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To Register:
1. Log on to the CCT website and enter your organisation type (e.g. PCT); then select the correct organisation name from the list presented.
2. Add in personal details as per the screen shot of registration below.
3. Continue with registration to complete your name, email, contact details (note - the email address you supply must match the email approved by the organisation you are employed by), password and access reason.
4. Accept the terms and conditions of use and click submit.
Registration approval process
5. If the Organisation is approved (this organisation has already signed the appropriate Data Access Agreement Form on behalf of the Organisation), then the User will be automatically approved (an email will be sent with a hyper link to click on to activate your account).
6. If your Organisation is NOT approved (data access form not received, incomplete, not signed by appropriate lead), then your User account will NOT be activated until this form has been corrected, submitted and approved. You will be sent a further data access agreement form to populate correctly, this can then be returned via the email link for quickness.
7. For NEW organisations / users who wish to register for Access, please register yourself as a User in the standard way. However you will need to populate the new organisation form as part of your registration process by clicking on "Please click here if your organisation is not listed" – the following on-line registration form will appear to record details of your organisation.
8. Once submitted the form will get reviewed, a data access agreement form will be sent to requested by lead via email. Once this is returned signed and has been approved, your organisation access will be granted.
This is a new automated user and organisation access process and should ensure a speedier approval.
If you have any queries, please contact the Concentra service desk or email Kath Yates.
User guides
Updates and release notes
Read communications from the CCT team and release notes below:
Acknowledgements
The CCT has been developed by the NHS National Cancer Action Team (NCAT) and NCIN in association with the Pharmaceutical Oncology Initiative Partnership (POIP).
The POIP is a partnership between the NCAT and a group of pharmaceutical companies who research, develop and supply innovative cancer medicines. The POIP was set up in 2005 to identify opportunities to collaborate on projects to benefit cancer patients by improving access to cancer medicines. Previous work by the POIP includes the Chemotherapy Planning Oncology Resource Tool (C-PORT).
NCAT and the POIP selected the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney to assist with the design, scope and functionality of the CCT. The analytics and tool development company Concentra were selected by NCAT to detail the design, develop, and ensure the successful roll-out of the web-based toolkit.