Barts Health NHS Trust

The Barts Health NHS Trust incorporates Whipps Cross University Hospital, Newham General Hospital and The Royal London Hospital http://bartshealth.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 60 974 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 16 72 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 84 80
– Performance status (%) 97 93 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 49 585 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 41 22 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 29 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 27 24 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 4 2 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) N/A 86 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 60 974 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 95 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 19 220 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 86 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 49 585 19218
Distant metastases (%) N/A 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 18 20 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 0 77 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 96 71 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 70 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 55 417 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 62 67 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 11 104 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 31 41 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 81 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 74 80
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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