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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • 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 356 1307 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 97 99 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 87 83 80
– Performance status (%) 37 67 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 247 809 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 16 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 21 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 6 10 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 90 82 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 356 1307 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 91 89 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 89 281 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 85 84 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 247 809 19218
Distant metastases (%) 9 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 19 13 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 87 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 71 80 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 71 74 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 163 571 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 59 60 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 75 209 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 55 55 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 84 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 76 72 80
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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