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 252 1247 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 90 86
– Performance status (%) 90 93 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 158 760 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 37 51 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 46 32 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 6 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 6 10 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 74 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 252 1247 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 90 93 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 70 345 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 158 760 15855
Distant metastases (%) 13 9 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 11 16 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 77 89 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 85 70 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 40 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 104 426 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 58 59 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 31 176 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 24 23 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 68 93 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 65 87 82
Rectal volume 30 161 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 210 904 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 54 36 36

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