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Endoscope-i technology has enabled the early detection of throat cancer by providing expert head and neck consultant opinions in the fastest possible time on all patients referred by primary care for suspected throat cancer. This tool has been invaluable during the pandemic where face to face consultation have been inhibited. The technology has not only maintained the cancer diagnosis pathway during the pandemic but has strengthened it to provide a high-quality service for anxious patients with throat symptoms resembling cancer of the head and neck.

Our project aims to reduce the time taken from diagnosis of a brain tumour to the beginning of treatment. We will achieve our aim by developing a new care process to allow key steps to happen in parallel.

This will be supported by our digital platform which enables data sharing across different institutions. We have already been able to reduce the time from first diagnosis to specialist discussion, and plan to extend this work to cover the entire period up to treatment. We will also develop a standard way of sharing data between individual hospital systems. By studying data collected and carrying out workshops, we will develop a 'toolkit' that will enable our findings to be applied to other cancers

GPs in England currently refer 2.5 million patients a year for possible cancer diagnosis. Over 9 in every 10 of them do not have cancer but undergo multiple expensive, time consuming and stressful diagnostic tests, affecting patient lives and using funds that could be used elsewhere. The PinPoint test was designed to reduce the number of patients needing these tests, thereby reducing patient anxiety, pressure on doctors and increasing diagnostic capacity. Working with NHS doctors, PinPoint designed the test using machine learning which takes a range of blood measurements to produce a single number that tells doctors a patient’s chance of having cancer which they can then use to more effectively stratify, triage, prioritise and safety net 2WW patients.

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The PinPoint Test is a decision support tool for clinicians. A stratification, prioritisation, safety netting and triage test for NHS cancer patients using data from a single blood draw, running on existing NHS IT/laboratory testing systems under NHS control.