Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple http://www.northdevonhealth.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 143 1186 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 105 102 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 76 61 76
– Performance status (%) 100 75 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 747 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 16 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 62 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 29 25 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 94 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 143 1186 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 95 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 747 19231
Distant metastases (%) 5 5 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 13 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 82 78 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 75 68 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 59 60 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 22 195 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 24 29 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 32 8 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 5 14 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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