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:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 197 2189 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 85 98 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 56 66 80
– Performance status (%) 87 74 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 145 1282 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 7 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 39 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 29 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 32 8 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 59 87 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 197 2189 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 90 80 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 42 405 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 84 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 145 1282 19218
Distant metastases (%) 6 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 15 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 88 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 61 61 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 57 59 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 85 817 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 67 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 39 313 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 19 38 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 82 96 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 77 90 80
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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