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
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • 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 108 1105 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 46 94 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 87 78
– Performance status (%) 82 64 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 77 677 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 23 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 58 53 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 22 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 N/A 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 94 96 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 108 1105 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 98 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 77 677 19222
Distant metastases (%) 7 5 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 26 18 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 97 79 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 42 67 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 65 53 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 11 149 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 47 25 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 91 94 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 73 88 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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