Click on the links below to access a range of documents you may find helpful in the context of the Cancer Alliance's work:

Independent investigation of the NHS in England: Lord Darzi's report on the state of the National Health Service in England (September 2024)

10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future (July 2025)

The NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer and the work of the NHS national cancer programme

NHS England's Workforce, Training and Education Directorate - ensuring the NHS workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place.

The work of NHS England North East and Yorkshire region

National programmes of work:

National Lung Cancer Screening Programme (see also our work in West Yorkshire and Harrogate)

Community Diagnostic Centres

Psychosocial support and improving quality of life outcomes

Data and statistics:

Cancer waiting times in England - NHS England

NHS Digital - Cancer Registration Statistics 2020

UK Cancer Statistics - Cancer Research UK

National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (part of the National Disease Registration Service)

Macmillan Cancer Support - Statistics Factsheet

International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP)

Cancer patient surveys:

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Areas covered by the Cancer Quality of Life survey
sent to patients 18 months after diagnosis.

National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (NCPES)

U16s National Cancer Patient Experience Survey

Quality of Life Survey