THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND: Quality Health Limited require a MRIS List Cleaning Report to carry out mortality checks and retrieve the current patient address for those men in the National Prostate Cancer Audi

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Source reference: DARS-NIC-96472-W0K5S-v1.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-96472-W0K5S-v1.2
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 6

Data approved

MRIS - List Cleaning Report

Objective, as published

Quality Health Limited require a MRIS List Cleaning Report to carry out mortality checks and retrieve the current patient address for those men in the National Prostate Cancer Audit survey cohort, who have not raised type 2 objections, in England for the purpose of administering a Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) survey of men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Before a questionnaire is sent out to a patient at their home address deceased checks are required to minimise any distress caused to bereaved families. Due to the time lag between diagnosis and the administration of the questionnaire it is also necessary to ensure the patient address held is current. The National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit Programme. The Royal College of Surgeons was awarded the contract for the audit, which started on 1st April 2013, and is managed as a partnership between a team of clinical, cancer information and audit experts from the British Association of Urological Surgeons, the British Uro-oncology Group, the National Cancer Registration Service and the Royal College of Surgeons. Other stakeholder groups include British Association of Urological Nurses, Prostate Cancer UK, and Tackle Prostate Cancer. The British Association of Urological Surgeons and the British Uro-oncology Group are not considered to be data controllers for the purpose of this application and along with ot…

Expected benefits, as published

The benefit of the list-cleaning service is that deceased individuals will be removed from the mail-outs, the latest addresses for patients will be used and only patients that have not raised a type II objection will be sent a survey. This minimises the likelihood of any distress caused to bereaved families and ensures that questionnaires are distributed to the correct address. Overall, the project has benefits which are namely: 1. To evaluate the quality of prostate cancer services in England 2. To determine the variance in the process and outcomes of prostate cancer care in England for the purpose of driving quality improvement 3. To publish comparative local outcomes, along with associated commentary, to enable patients to understand the quality of care being offered when making treatm…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/website-assets/service/dars/release-registers/releaseregister20180301_20180524.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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