Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital in Nottingham https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
    • 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
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 400 2189 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 99 98 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 82 66 80
– Performance status (%) 100 74 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 215 1282 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 7 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 29 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 8 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 87 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 400 2189 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 89 80 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 84 405 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 77 84 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 215 1282 19218
Distant metastases (%) 8 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 15 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 87 88 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 77 61 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 54 59 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 124 817 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 68 67 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 313 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 38 38 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 96 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 93 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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