Identifying patients with a cancer diagnosis using general practice medical records and Cancer Registry data.

Background: The medical records of patients with cancer need to accurately record diagnoses for professionals to provide quality care. Aims. (i) To develop a methodology which identifies medical records of patients with a cancer diagnosis.

Variation in the treatment of cervical cancer patients and the effect of consultant workload on survival: a population-based study.

This population-based study aimed to investigate the extent of variation in the treatment of patients diagnosed with cervical cancer between 1995 and 2000, and the relationship between workload and survival, looking at managing consultants and clinical oncologists. Cases were identified from the Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry (n=1500) and divided into three groups according to their gynaecologists' or clinical oncologists' annual cervical cancer workload; 'low' (1-3 new patients), 'intermediate' (4-11 new patients) and 'high' (12+new patients). Over the study period, there was a decrease in the proportion of patients treated by low workload gynaecologists.