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 379 2421 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 88 81 82
– Performance status (%) 91 76 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 198 1347 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 74 57 50
Performance status 1 (%) 14 18 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 4 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 7 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 77 67 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 379 2421 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 77 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 97 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 198 1347 21702
Distant metastases (%) 6 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 9 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 30 49 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 59 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 63 52 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 112 765 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 66 57 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 22 23 34
Rectal volume 33 243 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 150 1212 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 41 30 35

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