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 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
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 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 365 1308 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 104 103 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 80 78
– Performance status (%) 84 73 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 254 812 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 13 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 37 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 20 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 29 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 70 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 365 1308 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 79 84 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 254 812 19222
Distant metastases (%) 9 10 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 12 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 84 84 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 75 79 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 70 68 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 60 213 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 62 58 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 98 83 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 77 74 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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