King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - King's College Hospital

Case Ascertainment for 2018-19 and 2019-20 was calculated for the entire trust. The King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - King's College Hospital incorporates King's College Hospital in London https://www.kch.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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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 144 437 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 65 77 86
– Performance status (%) 99 91 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 332 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 18 14 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 63 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 19 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 1 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 96 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 144 437 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 85 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 28 144 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 86 88 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 332 15855
Distant metastases (%) 11 8 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 23 17 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 84 90 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 68 64 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 62 63 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 68 262 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 69 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 19 71 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 50 51 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 99 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 90 82
Rectal volume 15 77 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 75 439 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 16 34 36

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