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
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 272 3008 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 90 94 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 83 71 71
– Performance status (%) 100 77 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 174 1893 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 20 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 28 22 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 85 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 272 3008 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 86 82 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 174 1893 18809
Distant metastases (%) 7 7 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 12 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 27 18 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 44 55 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 69 76 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 41 498 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 50 51 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 2 23 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 12 8 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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