Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading http://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 242 1201 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 89 108 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 81 83
– Performance status (%) 100 79 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 637 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 0 18 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 66 48 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 29 26 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 5 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 94 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 242 1201 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 97 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 69 280 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 80 82 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 637 16474
Distant metastases (%) 4 4 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 11 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 94 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 87 79 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 49 55 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 83 398 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 60 61 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 40 174 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 28 16 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 98 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 95 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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