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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 171 1200 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 96 86
– Performance status (%) 100 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 79 636 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 12 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 67 57 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 20 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 N/A 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 98 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 171 1200 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 91 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 41 320 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 80 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 79 636 15855
Distant metastases (%) 1 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 76 25 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 92 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 46 66 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 47 60 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 69 519 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 58 55 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 10 124 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 44 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 80 94 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 70 84 82
Rectal volume 10 124 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 100 862 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 28 36 36

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