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
    • 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 401 1455 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 81 88 85
– Performance status (%) 62 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 268 848 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 9 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 58 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 25 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 10 6 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 87 92 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 401 1455 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 68 85 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 79 380 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 80 80 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 268 848 18515
Distant metastases (%) 9 9 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 11 18 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 83 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 71 79 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 66 66 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 137 425 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 66 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 68 183 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 72 59 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 91 92 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 78 82 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 247 811 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 33 33 37

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