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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 269 1404 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 87 78 85
– Performance status (%) 99 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 190 874 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 10 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 19 23 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 9 14 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 83 78 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 269 1381 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 98 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 59 314 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 87 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 190 874 18515
Distant metastases (%) 9 9 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 19 13 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 96 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 78 73 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 61 70 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 116 485 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 68 57 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 52 191 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 39 28 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 98 86 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 96 80 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 198 776 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 33 31 37

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