Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust incorporates Maidstone Hospital in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, and Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 271 1240 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 75 77 86
– Performance status (%) 13 70 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 27 500 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 4 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 44 61 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 48 32 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 78 49 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 271 1240 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 70 85 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 27 500 19614
Distant metastases (%) 8 5 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 7 12 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 89 44 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 4 71 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 117 45 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 70 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 21 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 61 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 60 83
Rectal volume N/A N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 91 517 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 43 37

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