August 2011 Update

Thank you to all NHS trusts that have begun submitting data to the new Audit. The data collection system opened on 1 June 2011 and is collecting data on patients diagnosed with Oesophageal or gastric cancer from 1 April 2011 onwards. As of 31 July, 36 trusts have submitted tumour information on 484 patients.

There are several steps that hospitals need to follow to begin the data submission process:

• Staff involved in the Audit for the first time will need to be registered to use the data collection system. To do this, complete a data user certificate, available online: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/services/national-clinical-audit-support-programme-ncasp/cancer/oesophago-gastric/getting-started.
• Staff involved in the original audit will need to reset their user passwords by contacting the NCASP helpdesk on 0845 300 6016, option 2.

There has been a tendency for information to be submitted very close to data submission deadlines. This makes it difficult for us to monitor progress and provide feedback on case-ascertainment and data completeness. To help us do this, we are therefore requesting that NHS trusts register and begin to submit data by 30 October 2011; the Audit will provide trusts with a basic report based on their submission. We are also required to report trust participation for Quality Accounts in Spring 2012. We will be basing this on data submitted by 31 March 2012. Data submission deadlines for Annual Reports will be after these dates.

• NOGCA Newsletter - August 2011  [ 60 kb ]

Dear Members,

I am pleased to announce that Mr Max Almond will be the inaugural recipient of the John Bennet Travelling Fellowship.

Max will be visiting Boston and the Mayo clinic to study aspects of Barretts and early oesophageal neoplasia.

He will be asked to prepare a report of his experience which I will circulate (planned visit early 2012) and he will be invited to present this at the Society’s annual meeting.

Stuart Riley,
Chair BSG Oesophgeal Section