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
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 495 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Poor Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 89 85
– Performance status (%) 75 93 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 70 319 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 14 10 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 56 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 26 26 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 8 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 74 83 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 495 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 97 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 40 132 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 95 92 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 70 319 18515
Distant metastases (%) 8 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 21 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 71 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 88 72 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 66 61 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 26 178 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 50 66 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 56 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 46 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 79 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 73 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 68 215 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 31 33 37

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