Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

The Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich and City Hospital in Birmingham https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 202 3058 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 131 96 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 52 72 71
– Performance status (%) 33 78 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 1920 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 13 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 39 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 38 25 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 8 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 6 7 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 86 74 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 202 3058 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 91 94 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 1920 18809
Distant metastases (%) 11 11 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 24 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 20 20 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 27 61 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 71 67 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 499 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 29 27 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 74 52 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 11 4 7
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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