Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Northern General Hospital in Sheffield http://www.sth.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Complex vascular reconstruction

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 395 1311 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 77 77 82
– Performance status (%) 71 60 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 151 536 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 38 40 50
Performance status 1 (%) 27 23 22
Performance status 2 (%) 7 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 27 32 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 63 57 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 395 1311 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 37 50 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 97 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 151 536 21702
Distant metastases (%) 7 5 7
Emergency surgery (%) 8 12 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 67 59 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 87 69 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 59 62 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 97 366 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 63 58 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 26 24 34
Rectal volume 42 107 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 214 656 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 30 34 35

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