NCRAS 10 May 2019
- The Emergency Presentation metric shows the estimated proportion of all malignant cancers which present as an emergency. The metric estimates the true proportion of emergency presentations using first admissions to hospital as a proxy for diagnosis to allow more rapid reporting. The spreadsheet contains emergency presentations presented at CCG and Alliance level quarterly and with a 1-year rolling average.
- Main findings include:
- in England, the annual average proportion of cancer patients who first presented as an emergency has gradually fallen over the last five years reported, from 20.2% in October 2013 to September 2014 to 18.7% in October 2017 to September 2018
- over the last five years reported (between October 2013 to September 2014 and October 2017 to September 2018), the proportion of cancer patients presenting as an emergency has fallen for 150 CCGs, and either risen or remained unchanged for 41 CCGs.
