East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Colchester Hospital

The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Colchester Hospital incorporates Colchester General 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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • 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 278 1745 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 103 86 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 81 83
– Performance status (%) 98 90 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 976 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 14 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 65 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 26 30 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 1 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 76 85 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 278 1745 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 91 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 83 489 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 60 83 86

Management of patients having major resection
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 976 16474
Distant metastases (%) 9 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 10 15 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 80 78 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 86 70 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 64 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 70 681 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 51 52 61

Rectal cancer patients
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 24 246 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 0 30 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 58 81 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 54 79 79
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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