Cancer diagnoses in 2022 (FOI)Cancer diagnoses in 2022 (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
24 March 2023.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please kindly provide information concerning cancer diagnoses in men and women in Jersey in 2022:
A
The number of men diagnosed with cancer in Jersey in 2022.
B
The number of women diagnosed with cancer in Jersey in 2022.
Please kindly provide information concerning heart scans in Jersey over the past 5 years:
i
The number of men who had a heart scan in Jersey in:
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
ii
The number of women who had a heart scan in Jersey in:
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Response
Cancer diagnoses
Information relating to cancer diagnosis in Jersey is analysed by Public Health England through the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service on behalf of the Channel Islands. The latest report from Public Health England can be found here:
Channel Islands Cancer Registration Report 2020 (gov.je)
Cancer diagnosis data for the period 2018 to 2022 will be included in future iterations of this report.
Providing data from the Jersey health systems would require data extraction, matching and analysis from the following systems:
- Cancer Outcomes and Services dataset (COSD) from the cancer management MDT system
- Pathology (including information about staging and metastasis)
- Patient Administration System (PAS)
- Death certificates or notices
Compilation of this data, without information from U.K. data systems related to Jersey domiciled residents, will not give a complete picture of cancer diagnosis in Jersey residents. Data is supplied through the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service in order to provide a complete data set of cancer diagnoses.
As data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated to answer this request, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hour time cost limits, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Scans
The table below shows the total number of Echocardiograms (‘heart scans’) performed through Health and Community Services per annum from 2018 to 2022. Figures for scans performed on male and female patients is provided as a percentage, as per the available recorded data. This includes both In-patient and Outpatient scans.
| 2018 | 4106 | 53 | 47 |
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| 2019 | 4694 | 54 | 46 |
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| 2020 | 3863 | 53 | 47 |
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| 2021 | 4419 | 55 | 45 |
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| 2022 | 3887 | 55 | 45
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In addition to the figures detailed in the table, a small number of complex investigations are completed each year that include Echocardiograms. Fewer than 50 such investigations are carried out each year.
Article applied
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.
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