Under the auspices of the Scottish Cancer Taskforce, National Cancer Quality Performance Indicators (QPIs) were developed to drive continuous quality improvement in cancer care across NHSScotland. In December 2012, Lung Cancer QPIs were published, and following 3 years of national comparative data, these have now been subject to formal review. In order to ensure success of the National Cancer QPIs in driving quality improvement it is critical that QPIs continue to be clinically relevant and focus on areas which will result in improvements to the quality of patient care.
The College response provides feedback on the revised QPIs, which are improving and are relevant to the management of lung cancer patients in 2016. Since the majority of lung cancer patients are treated with palliative intent it would seem important that future QPIs make an attempt to measure more subjective areas such as symptom control and Quality of Life.
