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:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 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 208 1709 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 84 104 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 94 86 78
– Performance status (%) 100 96 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1081 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 62 59 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 26 27 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 91 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 208 1709 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 88 95 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1081 19222
Distant metastases (%) 3 6 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 18 14 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 93 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 77 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 54 52 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 272 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 38 31 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 100 85 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 80 77
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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