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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Extended lymphadenectomy

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 339 1215 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 92 85
– Performance status (%) 99 89 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 179 659 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 78 62 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 16 23 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 6 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 93 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 339 1215 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 91 89 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 69 292 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 78 81 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 179 659 18515
Distant metastases (%) 6 8 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 11 14 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 88 89 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 76 75 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 65 58 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 101 352 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 59 58 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 37 152 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 38 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 97 98 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 86 93 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 149 571 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 46 37

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