Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates St James's University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/

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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 thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 436 1703 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 71 86 86
– Performance status (%) 27 76 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 162 821 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 5 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 22 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 15 13 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 81 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 436 1703 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 66 76 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 162 821 19614
Distant metastases (%) 8 5 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 6 20 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 76 90 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 65 81 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 63 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 104 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 64 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 20 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 46 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 69 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 96 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 85 90 83
Rectal volume 56 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 323 909 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 37 31 37

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