Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath https://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 193 2248 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 89 85 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 54 71 71
– Performance status (%) 98 84 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 55 1439 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 15 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 62 57 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 22 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 4 4 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 62 87 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 193 2248 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 84 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 55 1439 18809
Distant metastases (%) 8 9 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 2 15 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 16 18 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 85 62 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 65 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 15 316 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 54 29 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 32 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 5 7
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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