North Bristol NHS Trust

The North Bristol NHS Trust incorporates Southmead Hospital and Frenchay Hospital in Bristol https://www.nbt.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 MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 251 1641 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 89 80 85
– Performance status (%) 100 88 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 881 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 8 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 55 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 29 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 1 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 80 89 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 251 1641 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 85 83 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 46 416 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 52 78 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 881 18515
Distant metastases (%) 5 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 13 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 75 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 89 76 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 33 51 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 58 541 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 66 66 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 35 199 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 50 28 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 71 82 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 63 74 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 152 1018 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 30 37

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