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 96 461 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 39 76 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 84 83
– Performance status (%) 98 98 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 80 291 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 16 10 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 46 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 36 38 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 5 4 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 2 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 61 85 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 96 461 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 94 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 28 102 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 91 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 80 291 16474
Distant metastases (%) 2 3 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 23 20 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 49 81 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 89 76 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 65 59 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 18 164 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 56 67 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 15 62 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 20 61 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 60 84 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 53 77 79
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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