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We are a UK-wide partnership that is unlocking the power of health data to improve cancer care

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Improving care and outcomes for people with cancer

Health data

We work with partners to make high quality health data more accessible for cancer researchers and health professionals in a range of sectors to help improve care and outcomes for people with cancer.
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Partnering with patients

We work with patients and carers to make sure that data is used in a transparent and responsible way that benefits the NHS, patients and society. Patients are involved at all levels of our decision making processes.
Our work with patients

NHS Trusted Research Environment

We work with NHS Digital on the NHS Trusted Research Environment, providing researchers with access to cancer data to help understand the impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients.
Trusted Research Environment

Find out more about DATA-CAN’s work and impact in this video and in our Impact Report.

DATA-CAN Impact Report – a two year journey

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Significant drop in cancer diagnoses in Wales during the Covid-19 pandemic

20th May 2022

A new study in the British Journal of Cancer by DATA-CAN and partners has found that there were over a thousand fewer new cases of bowel, breast and lung cancers diagnosed in Wales in 2020, compared to 2019.
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Better use of data needed to tackle NHS backlogs

11th May 2022

A major success of the UK’s COVID-19 response has been the use of up-to-date, publicly available data – now this approach must be widened to tackle the indirect and long-term effects of the pandemic, according to a new study by a UK-wide team including DATA-CAN.

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DATA-CAN’s response to the publication of the Goldacre Review

28th April 2022

DATA-CAN has broadly welcomed the recently published Goldacre Review – Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis. Read more on our response here.

Health Data Research Innovation Gateway

DATA-CAN is making high quality datasets available to cancer researchers via the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway.

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Health Data Research UK

DATA-CAN is one of the Health Data Research Hubs funded through UK Research and Innovation’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, and coordinated by Health Data Research UK.

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