Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester http://www.dchft.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 133 1633 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 100 106 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 89 83 76
– Performance status (%) 100 82 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 91 991 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 15 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 43 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 35 25 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 7 4 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 82 92 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 133 1633 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 95 93 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 91 991 19231
Distant metastases (%) 5 7 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 13 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 89 83 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 69 73 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 61 65 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 23 257 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 4 26 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 27 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 12 7
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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