Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust incorporates Lewisham Hospital in London and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • 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 267 638 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 82 78 85
– Performance status (%) 100 94 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 150 462 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 15 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 70 57 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 15 24 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 95 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 267 638 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 97 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 74 190 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 93 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 150 462 18515
Distant metastases (%) 2 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 10 9 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 91 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 85 67 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 54 61 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 92 261 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 68 67 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 26 106 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 16 43 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 100 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 89 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 107 406 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 21 35 37

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