NHSE Subsegment / Condition Definitions

A national data-driven approach to population segmentation has been developed to support Population Health Management (PHM) outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. The subsegment and condition definitions in this section provide further detail on the business rules that have been applied to the data sources.

Read more about the background to segmentation, which includes how the project and the Segmentation Dataset output is delivered as part of this initiative.

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Incurable Cancer

Segment: Incurable Cancer

Subsegment Description

All people with cancer who are receiving end of life care.

Data Definition

All people who are receiving end of life care (in hospital or in the community) and have cancer recorded, since 2003, during:

  • a hospital admission (recorded either as the reason for admission or as a co- morbidity)
  • an outpatient appointment,
  • an A&E attendance, or
  • an attendance at a specialist service for cancer

Number of Clinical Codes Used

  • 130 ICD-10 diagnosis codes
  • 1 SNOMED diagnosis code (Applied to ECDS only)
  • 22 Service Line codes

Data Sources Used

Diagram showing that the datasets SUS (APC & OP), SUS Data (ECDS), Community Data, and SLAM Data are used in the Incurable Cancer subsegment.

For more information about each of the data sources click here