Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal United Hospital in Bath http://www.ruh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 311 2116 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 90 75 82
– Performance status (%) 72 69 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 195 1037 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 56 52 50
Performance status 1 (%) 18 18 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 3 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 N/A 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 22 26 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 65 59 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 311 2116 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 81 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 76 93 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 195 1037 21702
Distant metastases (%) 11 6 7
Emergency surgery (%) 17 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 53 58 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 64 66 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 61 52 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 111 648 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 69 68 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 4 23 34
Rectal volume 52 265 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 199 1251 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 30 30 35

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