The National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients (NABCOP) has published its first Annual Report.

The NABCOP 2017 Public and Patients Annual Report is a summary version of the findings from the first year of work conducted by the National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients (NABCOP). We have written this for people with breast cancer and the public.

This audit is a collaboration between the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) and the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), and was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit Patient Outcomes Programme.

If you have any queries about the audit, please let us know.

For more information about NABCOP, including the forthcoming patient audit, please visit our FAQs for professionals and the public.

The National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients (NABCOP) has published its first Annual Report.

The NABCOP 2017 Annual Report describes the findings from its first year of work. This was a collaboration between the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) and the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), and was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit Patient Outcomes Programme.

If you have any queries about the audit, please let us know.

For more information about NABCOP, including the forthcoming patient audit, please visit our FAQs for professionals and the public.

@NABCOP_news launched! Follow us for updates on this @RCSnews and @ABSGBI collaboration.

All NHS Trusts and Health Boards in England and Wales that provide breast cancer services should participate in the NABCOP online organisational audit. This consists of an online organisational survey of breast cancer services and an online case vignette exercise of clinical management recommendations for breast cancer in older patients.

Data collection for the online organisational survey and case vignettes is now open. Instructions were sent by email to the breast cancer lead clinician or nominated point of contact at each provider from 22nd November 2016 onwards.

Both of these online activities must be completed by Tuesday 13th December 2016.

If you have any queries about the organisational audit, please let us know.

For more information about NABCOP, including the forthcoming patient audit, please visit our FAQs for professionals and the public.

The NABCOP patient information leaflet is now available to download as a PDF.

Piloting of the NABCOP organisational audit began on Friday 28th October 2016. This exercise is taking place in four volunteer hospital Trusts. We expect piloting of the organisational survey and case vignettes to be completed by Friday 11th November. The main roll out of the organisational audit will take place later in November 2016, across all NHS Trusts and health boards that provide breast cancer care.

For more information, please see our NABCOP eNewsletter 2016 Issue #1.

NABCOP is a three year project. For more information about the audit, please visit the about us page.

Our first Clinical Steering Group (CSG) and Project Board (PB) meetings will be held in London on Wednesday 28 September 2016. Following these meetings, we will publish information on this website about the memberships of these groups and our agreed activities for the next 12 months.

Our first Annual Report will be published in 2017.

If you have any queries about NABCOP, please contact us.