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 230 1943 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 91 86
– Performance status (%) 99 84 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 133 1037 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 7 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 74 62 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 20 26 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 3 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 60 86 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1943 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 88 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 69 553 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 75 84 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 133 1037 15855
Distant metastases (%) 6 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 48 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 78 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 57 48 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 114 620 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 50 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 24 208 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 10 26 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 67 79 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 67 72 82
Rectal volume 27 178 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 191 1067 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 48 31 36

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