Cardiff MDT

The Cardiff MDT incorporates University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff http://www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/home

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • 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 276 1912 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 96 94 86
– Performance status (%) 100 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 138 1132 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 6 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 15 43 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 12 38 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 70 9 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 26 90 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 276 1912 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 93 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 49 411 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 76 82 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 138 1132 15855
Distant metastases (%) 18 10 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 22 26 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 76 88 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 57 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 41 63 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 50 701 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 60 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 22 268 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A N/A 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 45 89 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 41 84 82
Rectal volume 15 221 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 99 1164 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 30 45 36

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