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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 255 1631 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 88 91 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 31 85 76
– Performance status (%) 30 88 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 167 1132 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 63 61 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 16 20 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 4 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 9 5 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 63 69 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 255 1631 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 70 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 167 1132 19231
Distant metastases (%) 7 5 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 18 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 89 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 24 71 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 87 69 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 47 235 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 32 20 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 43 54 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 6 7
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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