title: Clinical management. Unknown quantities.
abstract: Poor performance on cancer waiting-time targets has been partly blamed on the government only recently pushing it to the top of the agenda. The first priority is to improve data collection. A number of trusts have made good progress, through streamlining services and encourging whole-trust ownership of the problem.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dix
mesh_terms: D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D013222:State Medicine; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014850:Waiting Lists