East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Colchester General Hospital and Ipswich Hospital https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/

Between 2019-2021 and from 2022-2023, outcomes for Colchester General Hospital and Ipswich Hospital were reported under East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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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
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • 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
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 568 4253 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 85 81 82
– Performance status (%) 90 75 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 315 2462 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 50 48 50
Performance status 1 (%) 35 26 22
Performance status 2 (%) 6 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 9 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 69 65 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 568 4253 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 73 65 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 96 91 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 315 2462 21702
Distant metastases (%) 7 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 10 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 57 57 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 73 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 47 57 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 164 1372 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 62 63 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 14 28 34
Rectal volume 64 546 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 299 2595 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 34 35

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