Cancer Registration Data

Agreements naming it

116

In term in September 2026

102

Organisations

36

Files released

630

Files released counts only files released externally by DARS. Access granted in NHS England's own systems, such as its Secure Data Environment, is not included.

How the register describes it

Recorded against the dataset on each agreement, and not always the same from one agreement to the next, so every value found is listed.

Type of data

• Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
• Identifiable

Sensitivity

• Non-Sensitive
• Sensitive

Frequency of release

• Frequent Adhoc Flow
• One-Off
• Ongoing

Legal basis for provision

• CV19: Regulation 3 (4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
• Consent (Reasonable Expectation)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(2)(d)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(c)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(a)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii)

7 more

• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)
• Informed Patient consent to permit the receipt, processing and release of data by NHS Digital
• National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
• Other-For one subset of the cohort the data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(7) and National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'. For the remainder of the cohort the data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(2)(c).
• Other-Regulation 3 of The Health Services Regulations 2002
• Other-Section 251

Organisations whose agreements name it (36)

Agreements covering this dataset

Showing all 116 agreements.

Files: files of this dataset released under the agreement, across all its versions.