Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

The Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth http://www.porthosp.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
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 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 331 1439 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 77 92 86
– Performance status (%) 100 88 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 196 692 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 2 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 68 53 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 9 11 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 82 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 331 1439 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 5 64 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 76 418 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 82 78 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 196 692 15855
Distant metastases (%) 7 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 11 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 100 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 56 73 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 52 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 108 525 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 68 65 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 59 158 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 17 27 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 98 85 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 80 82
Rectal volume 55 153 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 322 1012 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 13 26 36

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