East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, and William Harvey Hospital in Ashford http://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
  • 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 568 1305 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 80 73 82
– Performance status (%) 86 72 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 350 796 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 77 47 50
Performance status 1 (%) 8 23 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 3 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 9 25 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 63 52 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 568 1305 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 73 69 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 99 98 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 350 796 21702
Distant metastases (%) 3 5 7
Emergency surgery (%) 9 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 63 59 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 64 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 50 58 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 214 474 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 77 73 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 44 39 34
Rectal volume 63 143 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 305 743 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 37 35

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