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  <dc:title>NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel
Modelling</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package nhscancerwaits version 1.0.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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)
    &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01&gt;. Multilevel modelling concepts and variance
    decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007, ISBN:9780521686891).
    Cancer Waiting Times definitions and reporting standards follow NHS
    England
    &lt;https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.2.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: dplyr, tidyr, readr, readxl, stringr, lubridate, rlang,
ggplot2, scales, lme4, broom.mixed, performance, cluster,
stats, writexl</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, quarto, covr</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Muhammad Zahir Khan &lt;zahirstat007@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Muhammad Zahir Khan [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7645-8960&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nhscancerwaits/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-19</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nhscancerwaits</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.nhscancerwaits</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-GB</dc:language>
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