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 410 1808 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 68 82 86
– Performance status (%) 96 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1002 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 56 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 35 30 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 13 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 84 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 410 1808 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 72 83 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 122 525 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 83 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1002 15855
Distant metastases (%) 4 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 91 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 65 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 52 60 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 127 649 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 53 207 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 30 38 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 94 84 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 89 76 82
Rectal volume 55 201 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 265 1279 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 31 34 36

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