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
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 81 557 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 48 74 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 21 71 78
– Performance status (%) 85 98 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 453 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 13 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 24 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 28 7 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 50 64 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 81 557 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 100 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 453 19222
Distant metastases (%) 11 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 12 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 93 91 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 43 65 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 84 66 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 45 106 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 53 49 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 91 95 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 84 89 77
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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