2011-12 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey

Following the success of the 2010 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, Quality Health will be undertaking a repeat of the survey in 2012, on behalf of the Department of Health, covering all acute and specialist NHS Trusts in England that provide adult acute cancer services.

The survey will cover approximately 110,000 NHS patients who have been seen for treatment in hospital in the period September-November 2011 and who had a primary diagnosis of cancer. Send out of the survey to patients will start late January and the fieldwork will end in April 2012.

This section of the website contains important national documentation on the survey. Here you can find: copies of the questionnaire sent to patients;  the full National Guidance for the survey; and the National Report for DH on the findings of the 2010 survey.  You can also view the Trust level findings from the 2010 Survey.

The questionnaire, methodology and supporting material such as covering letters to patients will largely replicate the 2010 survey and have been extensively reviewed at national level and formally agreed by the Department of Health. The work has been supervised by the national Cancer Patients Experience Advisory Group chaired jointly by Professor Sir Mike Richards CBE and Professor Jessica Corner of Macmillan Cancer Support.

The results from the 2011-12 Survey will be published in the Summer and further details including the timetable for this will be communicated later in the year.