Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester http://www.coch.nhs.uk/

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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
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 179 1497 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 96 85
– Performance status (%) 100 94 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 98 826 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 14 11 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 63 57 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 20 28 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 1 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 93 88 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 179 1497 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 92 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 54 384 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 63 80 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 98 826 18515
Distant metastases (%) 4 4 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 32 16 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 85 83 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 69 69 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 49 61 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 75 490 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 67 57 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 18 157 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 35 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 83 85 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 72 79 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 102 815 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 29 35 37

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