Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • 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 thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 564 2310 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 74 86 86
– Performance status (%) 100 98 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 313 1175 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 55 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 40 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 2 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 95 88 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 564 2310 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 76 86 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 313 1175 19614
Distant metastases (%) 3 4 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 11 12 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 88 81 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 51 68 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 53 58 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 164 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 59 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 98 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 19 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 85 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 29 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 92 86 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 84 80 83
Rectal volume 80 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 272 1244 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 33 35 37

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