The National Radiotherapy Waiting Times Database is a collation of records related to courses of radiotherapy that began in a reference period. The data collected includes administrative details, patient demographic characteristics and some clinical information. The database was primarily designed to enable reporting of waiting times for radiotherapy services which are calculated as the time between the patient's ready-for-care date and the date of the first megavoltage external beam radiotherapy treatment.

Collection details
Variables to support reporting and linkage
  • Age (Date of birth)
  • Sex/gender
  • Indigenous status
  • SA2

Temporal coverage 

from 1/07/2015 to 30/06/2019

Geographical coverage

National and State

Data availability

Publications

Data scope 

Establishments in scope are those healthcare establishments that provide megavoltage external beam radiotherapy treatment (in-scope radiotherapy treatment). Both public and private establishments are in scope. While it is mandatory for public establishments to report data to the national minimum data set (NMDS), private providers are also encouraged to participate.

Methodology 

Admin data

Official 

Metadata information

Data source with links to all NMDS, DSS, and DQS
(METEOR 598445)


External links and information 

Radiotherapy in Australia 2018–19

Radiotherapy in Australia 2017-18

Radiotherapy in Australia 2016-17

Contact

[email protected]

*Data collection with restricted access