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 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
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 266 1050 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 87 102 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 86 83 78
– Performance status (%) 100 79 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 155 601 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 12 16 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 27 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 94 94 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 266 1050 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 94 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 155 601 19222
Distant metastases (%) 5 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 12 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 98 90 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 48 58 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 65 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 163 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 50 41 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 97 94 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 89 90 77
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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