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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 1439 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Fair Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 99 92 86
– Performance status (%) 87 88 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 58 692 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 2 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 33 53 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 45 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 19 11 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 69 82 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 1439 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 64 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 37 418 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 92 78 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 58 692 15855
Distant metastases (%) 4 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 5 11 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 91 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 90 73 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 38 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 34 525 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 62 65 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 12 158 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 27 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 75 85 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 75 80 82
Rectal volume N/A 153 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 64 1012 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 27 26 36

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