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 270 1079 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 91 91 82
– Performance status (%) 91 80 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 175 588 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 63 46 50
Performance status 1 (%) 25 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 7 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 3 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 6 19 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 84 68 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 270 1079 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 64 79 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 99 97 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 175 588 21702
Distant metastases (%) 4 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 6 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 58 60 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 47 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 70 70 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 75 358 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 77 72 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 44 42 34
Rectal volume 58 145 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 184 706 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 38 35

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