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 223 816 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 90 86
– Performance status (%) 98 98 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 122 444 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 34 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 12 23 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 48 13 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 52 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 223 816 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 52 223 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 77 78 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 122 444 15855
Distant metastases (%) 5 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 14 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 90 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 53 50 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 86 70 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 101 308 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 66 64 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 29 104 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 34 43 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 84 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 86 75 82
Rectal volume 37 113 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 172 505 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 34 36 36

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