East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates Eastbourne District General Hospital and Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea http://www.esht.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 275 2057 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 91 84 86
– Performance status (%) 98 89 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 162 1091 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 10 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 75 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 17 26 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 3 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 78 90 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 275 2057 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 94 89 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 162 1091 19614
Distant metastases (%) 1 3 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 15 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 63 84 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 70 84 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 59 49 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 92 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 52 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 6 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 22 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 13 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 82 86 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 82 80 83
Rectal volume 22 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 182 1092 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 47 29 37

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