Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

The Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary's Hospital Paddington, and Hammersmith Hospital in London https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • 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 hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
    • Intraoperative RTX
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 182 1404 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 92 78 85
– Performance status (%) 100 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 874 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 10 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 67 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 20 23 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 14 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 78 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 182 1381 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 98 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 57 314 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 87 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 874 18515
Distant metastases (%) 7 9 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 5 13 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 99 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 69 73 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 68 70 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 73 485 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 42 57 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 29 191 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 32 28 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 90 86 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 72 80 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 117 776 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 25 31 37

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