Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

The Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Derriford Hospital in Plymouth https://www.plymouthhospitals.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
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1146 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 77 91 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 90 83
– Performance status (%) 100 100 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 79 619 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 14 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 48 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 41 36 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 0 0 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 93 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1146 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 98 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 85 333 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 93 90 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 79 619 16474
Distant metastases (%) 0 7 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 12 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 96 79 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 72 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 52 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 81 379 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 52 59 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 24 143 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 44 22 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 88 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 83 80 79
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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