King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Princess Royal University Hospital

Case Ascertainment for 2018-19 and 2019-20 was calculated for the entire trust. The King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Princess Royal University Hospital incorporates Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley https://pruh.kch.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022-2023, outcomes were separately reported for King's College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital

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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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 67 437 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Poor Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 77 86
– Performance status (%) 100 91 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 61 332 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 16 14 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 30 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 1 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 90 96 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 67 437 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 21 144 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 100 88 82

Management of patients having major resection
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 61 332 15855
Distant metastases (%) 7 8 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 17 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 85 90 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 64 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 49 63 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 28 262 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 71 69 60

Rectal cancer patients
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 11 71 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 77 51 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 91 99 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 91 90 82
Rectal volume 11 77 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 91 439 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 19 34 36

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