Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust incorporates St Thomas' Hospital in London and Guy's Hospital in London http://www.guysandstthomas.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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 112 550 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 57 75 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 31 86 76
– Performance status (%) 12 80 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 93 377 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 14 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 39 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 20 21 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 33 9 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 29 80 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 112 550 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 99 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 93 377 19231
Distant metastases (%) 18 6 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 12 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 82 86 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 55 62 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 73 65 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 28 77 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 53 44 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A N/A 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 18 10 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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