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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 343 2111 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 87 85
– Performance status (%) 95 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 207 1131 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 9 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 48 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 47 34 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 6 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 92 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 343 2111 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 78 79 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 114 589 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 87 81 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 207 1131 18515
Distant metastases (%) 2 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 29 16 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 83 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 83 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 59 51 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 116 705 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 52 57 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 36 266 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 61 42 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 89 92 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 83 86 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 203 1207 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 40 39 37

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