Cancer Alliance access to National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set (NCWTMDS) from the Cancer Wait Times (CWT) System

Data-sharing agreement from NHS England Data Uses Register. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: NHS ENGLAND - X26
Published: 2026-08-10
Source reference: DARS-NIC-778539-F0L7F-v1.3
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-778539-F0L7F-v1.3
Applicant type: Agency/Public Body
Data controllers: NHS THAMES VALLEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Agreement period: 2026-08-10 to 2028-03-12
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): No
Release files listed by NHS England: 0

Data approved

National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring DataSet (NCWTMDS)

Objective, as published

Improvements for Cancer patients: In 2015, the independent Cancer Taskforce set out an ambitious vision for improving services, care and outcomes for everyone with Cancer: fewer people getting Cancer, more people surviving Cancer, more people having a good experience of their treatment and care, whoever they are and wherever they live, and more people being supported to live as well as possible after treatment has finished. In 2019, the NHS Long Term Plan was published and it aims to improve how we diagnose and treat cancer. The plan included cancer care as one of its clinical priorities and aimed to boost cancer survival rates by focusing on early diagnosis. The plan set new targets that, by 2028, the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 will rise to 75% of cancer patients. Further, an extra 55,000 people each year will survive for 5 years or more following their cancer diagnosis. Cancer Alliances: Cancer Alliances have a crucial role to play by being the cancer arms of their ICSs and being the leaders for cancer within their ICB and ICS footprint. Their role is to lead the planning and delivery of the Long-Term Plan ambitions for cancer for their populations, to provide system oversight and co-ordination for cancer services and to oversee the delivery of critical programmes of work within that footprint. They do this by: • Collaborating with partners (ICSs, commissioners and providers) to provide system level oversight and co-ordination to deliver the operatio…

Expected benefits, as published

1) Benefits type: Supporting delivery of CWT standards The Cancer Waiting Times standards are key operational standards for the NHS, which aim to reduce the waits for diagnosis and treatment for Cancer patients, which will support improvements to survival rates and improve patient experience. These include the 3 combined operational standards which came into existence in October 2023 (28 day Faster Diagnosis, 31 day Treatment and 62 day Standards). A key enabler to achieve these standards, and thus improve survival and patient experience is the role of Cancer Alliances locally to work with providers and commissioners to improve patient pathways. Access to the Cancer Waiting Times data as detailed in the above will enable Cancer Alliances to have informed discussions and allocate resources…

Benefits reported by the applicant

Cancer Alliances have previously had access to Cancer Waiting Times reports and pseudonymised data through the system on Open Exeter, under an agreement with NHS England. This has enabled analysis to inform service improvement both to achieve the national Cancer Waiting Times standards and also wider Cancer pathway improvement work, which will have contributed to oncoming improvements to Cancer survival, and patient experience. Examples of specific work undertaken by Thames Valley Cancer Alliance include:- •Performance Oversite & Improvement •Improving Access To Cancer Pathways •Improving Health Inequalities •Improving Patient Experience •Improving Earlier Diagnosis •Improving Faster Diagnosis •Supporting Reduction In Late Cancer Stages •Improving Treatment Times •Identifying Challenged T…

This is the applicant's own account; OpenHDI has not verified it.

Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-uses-register. Captured 2026-11-05.

Limitations: Data-sharing agreement as published in NHS England's Data Uses Register. An agreement permits access; actual data releases are listed separately. Expected and yielded benefits are as reported by the applicant and have not been independently verified. Long text fields can be cut off in NHS England's spreadsheet export at Excel's 32,767-character cell limit.