This report includes patients diagnosed with bowel cancer in England and Wales between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.

Patient friendly version of our State of the Nation report. This report includes patients diagnosed with bowel cancer in England and Wales between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.

Supplementary results for the State of the Nation Report

This contains additional detailed information about the Methodology used within the State of the Nation Report.

Outlier responses for the State of the Nation Report

Individual Trust/hospital/MDT results for the 2023 State of the Nation report are available here in an Excel spreadsheet.

Trusts were excluded from the State of the Nation report analyses if overall data completeness was less than 20% or ASA grade and/or TNM stage was missing in more than 80% of patients included in the analyses.

Capturing transfer from theatre to critical care in linked national clinical datasets.

This report includes patients diagnosed with bowel cancer in England and Wales between 01 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, and patients diagnosed between 01 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 who underwent a major resection after 31 March 2020.