Cancer Performance Support Team
In July 2006 the 62-day urgent referral to first cancer treatment target had not been met, a year after it was due for delivery. Therefore weekly management reporting started as a proactive means of monitoring the 62-day target.
CPST was set up in November 2006 to performance manage across NHSScotland and offer intense support to NHS Boards with poorer performance or large scale challenge. As well as scrutinising the data reported on a weekly basis, work took the form of diagnostic visits, which focussed on executive leadership, clinical engagement, operational management focus, capacity and bottlenecks, escalation policies, management of inter hospital transfers and pathway reviews. This shift to pathway management is vital for meeting referral to treatment targets.
Now CPST continues to support NHS Boards on the 2000 and 2008 targets with a tactical, problem-solving role, tailored to the most challenging cancer pathways in NHS Boards. Current focus is on the move to the 2008 targets and ensuring good practice lessons learnt reaching the 2000 target remain during the transition to measuring the 2008 targets..
CPST is only one workstream in the Improvement & Support Team, there are also other strands of work.
Below are links to some of the history of CPST and weekly reporting:
Annexe 1 Guidance Note on Weekly Performance Reporting
Annexe 2 Frequently Asked Questions in Weekly Performance Reporting
Annexe 3 Weekly Cancer Reporting - Summary of Position
Delivering Cancer Waiting Times Breach Report