Liver surveillance

We are supporting Liver Services to invite over 80% of patients with cirrhosis/advanced fibrosis to 6-monthly ultrasound surveillance and will support more than 60% of those invited to attend.

We are working with our Upper GI Pathway Group, a clinically led multi-disciplinary (including patient/lay representation), multi-agency group leading transformation across the whole breadth of UGI cancer.

The current Liver Surveillance initiative will ensure all providers have resources to continue their work to introduce and develop call/recall and manage patients on surveillance registers. The NCA and its providers have made progress in recent years on collecting data and implementing systems for call/recall and to manage patients within systems of liver surveillance registers.

The Early Diagnostic Programme continues, with support from The Upper GI Pathway Group, to refine, implement, and monitor an action plan to ensure systems and processes are in place within individual Trusts for robust call/recall, managing patients in the pathway and delivering HCC minimum standards.