nhscancerwaits: NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel
Modelling
Provides tools for importing, harmonising, cleaning, analysing,
benchmarking and visualising National Health Service (NHS) England
Cancer Waiting Times data. The package supports national performance
monitoring, provider-level benchmarking and cancer pathway comparisons
through key performance indicator summaries, provider filtering,
clustering analyses, mixed-effects regression models, variance
decomposition, intraclass correlation coefficient estimation, adjusted
provider performance estimation and sensitivity analyses. Functions are
included for exploratory analysis, publication-ready visualisations and
spreadsheet exports, supporting reproducible health services research,
cancer services evaluation, quality improvement and assessment of
waiting-time performance across healthcare organisations. Mixed-effects
modelling functionality is based on Bates et al. (2015)
<doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01>. Multilevel modelling concepts and variance
decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007, ISBN:9780521686891).
Cancer Waiting Times definitions and reporting standards follow NHS
England
<https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/>.
| Version: |
1.0.2 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.2.0) |
| Imports: |
dplyr, tidyr, readr, readxl, stringr, lubridate, rlang, ggplot2, scales, lme4, broom.mixed, performance, cluster, stats, writexl |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, quarto, covr |
| Published: |
2026-06-19 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.nhscancerwaits (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Muhammad Zahir Khan
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Muhammad Zahir Khan <zahirstat007 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/zerish12/nhscancerwaits/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/zerish12/nhscancerwaits |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-GB |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
nhscancerwaits results |
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