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, 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 448 1808 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 90 82 86
– Performance status (%) 94 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 203 1002 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 56 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 30 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 51 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 448 1808 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 81 83 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 136 525 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 65 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 203 1002 15855
Distant metastases (%) N/A 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 46 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 65 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 43 60 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 123 649 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 37 207 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 9 38 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 51 84 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 30 76 82
Rectal volume 36 201 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 232 1279 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 28 34 36

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