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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1094 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 97 63 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 95 92 83
– Performance status (%) 83 85 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 613 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 5 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 61 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 30 30 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 0 3 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 82 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1094 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 90 87 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 54 292 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 91 87 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 613 16474
Distant metastases (%) 4 6 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 14 13 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 88 77 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 77 78 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 57 53 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 121 561 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 65 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 37 142 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 19 22 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 95 76 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 89 72 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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