Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble Hospital http://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • 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:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • 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 242 1100 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Fair Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 89 89 86
– Performance status (%) 100 98 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 553 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 13 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 57 57 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 38 20 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 7 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 86 75 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 242 1100 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 95 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 553 19614
Distant metastases (%) 7 7 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 84 78 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 62 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 62 68 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 39 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 69 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 29 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 17 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 40 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 55 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 90 79 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 80 70 83
Rectal volume 29 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 55 524 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 37 37

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