London North West Hospitals NHS Trust

The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates St Mark's Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, London and Ealing Hospital http://www.lnwh.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
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • 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 256 1390 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 89 77 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 75 83 78
– Performance status (%) 97 89 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 191 868 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 12 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 65 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 18 27 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 3 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 83 90 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 256 1390 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 94 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 191 868 19222
Distant metastases (%) 7 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 14 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 98 90 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 71 64 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 78 72 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 44 202 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 35 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 98 97 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 91 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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