National Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Audit: Care Pathway Metrics for England and Wales

The National NNHLA Audit determines whether care for non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients in England and Wales is consistent with recommended practice. This first State of the Nation report covers diagnoses from January 2020 to December 2021 in England and January 2022 to December 2022 in Wales. It is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance based on reported process and outcome measures.
• Analyzing patterns of care for non-Hodgkin lymphoma across different regions.
• Identifying areas for quality improvement in oncology based on audit findings.
• Supporting healthcare policy decisions with aggregated clinical audit data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific cancer type (non-Hodgkin lymphoma) with defined care pathways.
• Covers a recent multi-year period (2020-2022) across two UK nations.
• Reports on both process and outcome measures for a comprehensive audit.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the audit's scope.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Clinical audit of healthcare providers.

Time Range

January 2020 to December 2021 (England), January 2022 to December 2022 (Wales)

Geography

England and Wales