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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 312 1412 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 89 87 85
– Performance status (%) 94 85 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 176 868 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 8 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 49 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 42 29 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 6 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 88 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 312 1412 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 88 94 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 78 344 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 83 85 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 176 868 18515
Distant metastases (%) 7 6 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 12 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 87 89 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 75 83 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 48 56 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 108 430 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 58 61 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 35 198 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 17 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 97 86 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 83 80 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 201 819 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 51 36 37

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