Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Aintree University Hospital, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022, outcomes were separately reported for Aintree and Royal Liverpool Hospital

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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 hepatobiliary 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
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 338 1 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 76 86 82
– Performance status (%) 75 80 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 233 972 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 56 56 50
Performance status 1 (%) 20 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 5 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 2 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 18 12 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 60 71 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 338 1814 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 68 70 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 99 96 94

Management of patients having major resection
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 233 972 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 9 7
Emergency surgery (%) 15 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 54 47 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 48 51 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 69 66 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 111 570 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 53 59 66

Rectal cancer patients
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 49 38 34
Rectal volume 58 198 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 255 1007 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 28 37 35

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