Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Wonford http://www.rdehospital.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022-2023, outcomes were separately reported for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - North Devon District Hospital

View Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - North Devon District Hospital outcomes

View Trust Services

This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • 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 280 1216 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 111 105 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 88 82 80
– Performance status (%) 100 97 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 779 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 16 20 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 47 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 32 27 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 86 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 280 1216 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 95 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 67 274 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 87 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 779 19218
Distant metastases (%) 7 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 15 17 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 77 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 63 67 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 56 55 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 108 477 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 42 56 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 216 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 13 27 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 91 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 98 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

Compare trust outcomes