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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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 94 579 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 50 80 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 32 69 80
– Performance status (%) 99 99 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 132 446 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 12 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 28 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 19 6 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 73 88 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 94 579 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 98 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients N/A 134 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) N/A 93 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 132 446 19218
Distant metastases (%) 3 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 12 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 94 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 50 64 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 76 62 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 70 303 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 74 73 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 100 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 58 45 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 97 99 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 76 88 80
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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