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:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT 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
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 116 407 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 40 69 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 62 72 83
– Performance status (%) 92 71 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 87 254 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 14 28 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 59 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 24 13 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 1 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 0 3 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 93 91 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 116 407 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 89 78 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 23 76 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 96 92 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 87 254 16474
Distant metastases (%) 10 9 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 20 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 75 83 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 77 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 75 78 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 61 172 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 56 64 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 12 35 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 24 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 92 91 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 83 89 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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