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 271 543 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 73 79 85
– Performance status (%) 76 67 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 158 360 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 13 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 56 54 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 31 28 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 3 4 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 91 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 271 543 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 73 73 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 52 120 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 92 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 158 360 18515
Distant metastases (%) 12 8 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 18 16 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 88 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 78 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 79 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 49 167 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 47 59 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 39 72 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 12 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 87 90 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 87 86 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 97 219 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 34 27 37

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