Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Bedford Hospital and Luton & Dunstable Hospital in Luton https://www.bedfordshirehospitals.nhs.uk/

Outcomes for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 is at Trust level and includes data submitted by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Luton & Dunstable Hospital

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Support service facilities:
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 347 4253 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 83 81 82
– Performance status (%) 71 75 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 199 2462 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 57 48 50
Performance status 1 (%) 13 26 22
Performance status 2 (%) 2 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 28 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 61 65 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 347 4253 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 64 65 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 96 91 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 199 2462 21702
Distant metastases (%) 6 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 9 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 55 57 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 85 73 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 39 57 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 113 1372 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 64 63 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 30 28 34
Rectal volume 52 546 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 202 2595 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 43 34 35

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