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 252 1216 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 101 105 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 82 80
– Performance status (%) 100 97 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 180 779 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 20 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 57 47 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 34 27 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 86 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 252 1216 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 95 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 77 274 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 91 87 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 180 779 19218
Distant metastases (%) 6 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 22 17 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 58 67 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 65 55 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 107 477 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 50 56 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 47 216 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 32 27 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 94 91 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 81 85 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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