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 331 1965 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 84 75 86
– Performance status (%) 94 79 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 182 1125 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 7 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 46 50 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 44 33 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 7 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 90 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 331 1965 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 76 69 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 89 461 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 81 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 182 1125 15855
Distant metastases (%) 3 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 29 17 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 86 90 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 79 81 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 47 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 113 658 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 50 54 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 41 270 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 52 33 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 92 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 87 82
Rectal volume 33 261 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 220 1328 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 35 37 36

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