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:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 198 3656 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 30 78 85
– Performance status (%) 92 84 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 135 2244 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 51 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 45 34 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 6 5 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 93 89 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 198 3656 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 87 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 25 881 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 92 88 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 135 2244 18515
Distant metastases (%) 7 6 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 16 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 85 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 84 72 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 58 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 75 1158 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 59 67 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 34 538 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 32 34 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 88 92 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 79 86 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 152 2151 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 33 37

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