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
    • 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 213 1800 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 48 72 85
– Performance status (%) 79 91 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 148 1090 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 5 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 30 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 26 31 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 4 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 38 6 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 60 92 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 213 1800 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 94 92 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 26 392 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 78 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 148 1090 18515
Distant metastases (%) 12 9 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 23 18 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 53 64 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 58 59 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 100 590 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 66 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 239 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 9 39 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 45 89 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 37 85 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 134 1102 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 44 37

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