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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • 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 202 866 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 78 99 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 99 86 78
– Performance status (%) 100 94 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 94 500 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 18 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 22 23 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 3 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 89 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 202 866 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 95 96 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 94 500 19222
Distant metastases (%) 11 11 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 14 15 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 45 72 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 77 60 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 72 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 16 109 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 71 43 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 75 94 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 75 81 77
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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