County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

The County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust incorporates University Hospital of North Durham, Darlington Memorial Hospital, and Bishop Auckland Hospital https://www.cddft.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 431 2260 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 86 78 86
– Performance status (%) 100 80 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 239 1313 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 9 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 48 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 34 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 5 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 6 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 82 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 431 2260 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 88 76 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 239 1313 19614
Distant metastases (%) 3 5 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 20 13 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 87 79 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 47 39 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 116 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 60 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 22 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 59 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 21 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 95 87 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 93 83 83
Rectal volume 55 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 227 1373 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 36 39 37

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