Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Royal Free Hospital incorporates the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital in London https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • 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
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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 310 662 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 46 59 82
– Performance status (%) 15 28 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 385 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 14 15 50
Performance status 1 (%) 5 11 22
Performance status 2 (%) 1 3 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 80 69 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 10 21 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 310 662 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 36 38 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 98 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 385 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 6 7
Emergency surgery (%) 15 16 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 42 32 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 47 57 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 64 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 78 208 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 58 61 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 44 30 34
Rectal volume 31 81 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 142 346 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 36 26 35

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