East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital http://www.elht.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
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 275 1079 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 95 91 82
– Performance status (%) 97 80 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 132 588 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 58 46 50
Performance status 1 (%) 27 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 10 7 5
Performance status 3 (%) 3 3 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 2 19 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 88 68 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 275 1079 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 83 79 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 93 97 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 132 588 21702
Distant metastases (%) 11 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 68 60 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 54 47 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 79 70 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 101 358 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 72 72 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 42 42 34
Rectal volume 30 145 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 176 706 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 38 35

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