Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

The Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust incorporates Northampton General Hospital http://www.northamptongeneral.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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 125 2135 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 69 91 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 60 65 71
– Performance status (%) 89 64 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 96 1304 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 20 13 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 22 22 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 11 4 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 89 87 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 125 2135 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 92 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 96 1304 18809
Distant metastases (%) 7 10 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 15 16 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 61 53 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 66 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 28 380 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 10 43 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 5 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 7 7
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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