University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Royal Sussex County Hospital

The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Royal Sussex County Hospital incorporates Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath https://www.uhsussex.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
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 209 1912 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 99 92 85
– Performance status (%) 26 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 962 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) N/A 13 9
ASA grade 2 (%) N/A 56 53
ASA grade 3 (%) N/A 28 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 1 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) N/A 94 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 209 1912 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 87 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 38 493 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 87 80 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 962 18515
Distant metastases (%) N/A 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) N/A 18 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) N/A 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) N/A 79 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 56 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 46 613 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 70 56 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 199 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 16 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 91 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 85 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 74 928 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 29 37

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