Medway NHS Foundation Trust

The Medway NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent https://www.medway.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
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 905 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 82 77 86
– Performance status (%) 92 96 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 82 441 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 2 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 62 51 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 38 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 80 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 905 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 76 78 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 30 200 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 97 81 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 82 441 15855
Distant metastases (%) 3 8 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 18 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 33 77 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 55 57 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 37 53 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 46 316 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 54 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 65 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 8 28 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 85 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 75 82
Rectal volume 11 68 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 93 548 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 24 45 36

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