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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 276 1146 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 90 86
– Performance status (%) 97 94 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 195 638 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 54 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 39 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 N/A 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 97 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 276 1146 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 93 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 195 638 19614
Distant metastases (%) 7 9 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 10 13 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 88 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 73 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 55 46 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 122 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 72 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 24 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 27 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 93 91 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 79 82 83
Rectal volume 54 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 159 774 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 52 41 37

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