Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Hexham General Hospital, Wansbeck Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital https://www.northumbria.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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 282 1981 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 97 103 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 83 78 78
– Performance status (%) 90 82 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1180 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 49 48 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 34 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 4 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 92 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 282 1981 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 94 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1180 19222
Distant metastases (%) 6 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 15 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 82 88 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 49 80 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 51 55 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 37 298 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 23 37 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 100 91 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 85 77
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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