National Cancer Information Service (NCIS)

Who do I register with?

Access to the NCIS is only available through your regional cancer registry. Find yours:

Download the Access Form

Download and send the completed form to your local cancer registry

Launch the NCIS

Once registered, you can run the NCIS from an N3 connection by clicking this box:

NCIS is a national web-based reporting tool, running across N3 (the NHS national network), providing users access to cancer information for their area.

If you are already registered, simply launch the National CIS here (N3 only).

Through a configurable web interface, NCIS offers secure and timely information on cancer incidence, mortality and survival with control over drill-down to lower levels of data and data manipulation features, meaning that you can navigate to your area of interest with ease.

The applications in NCIS provide comparative views of the information held by the cancer registries of England and allow users to compare their own organisation or local geographies nationally data, and other GORs, LAs, SHAs, PCTs and Cancer Networks.

Available on NCIS:

Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Survival* analyses for both Local Government and health Geographies
Individual and common groupings of all cancer sites
Numbers and crude rates
Age-standardised rates
Age-sex profiles

*survival is provided only at higher level health geographies - cancer networks and above

(Download the NCIS Flyer)

"NCIS is an invaluable tool that has the power to help you monitor cancer rates for your local area of responsibility."

NCIS is based on the same user interface as two other national applications:

eDQRS, the data quality reporting service on the NHS-wide clearing service
CfH Secondary Uses Service (SUS), the Department of Health's performance indicator comparative system for benchmarking acute trusts, PCTs & SHAs