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
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 241 1641 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 96 80 85
– Performance status (%) 88 88 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 145 881 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 8 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 57 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 34 29 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 1 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 89 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 241 1641 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 66 83 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 69 416 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 77 78 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 145 881 18515
Distant metastases (%) 3 5 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 13 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 74 76 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 56 51 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 118 541 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 64 66 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 25 199 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 21 28 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 82 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 88 74 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 167 1018 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 30 37

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