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 272 936 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 90 91 86
– Performance status (%) 99 88 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 107 415 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 75 59 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 16 26 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 5 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 92 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 272 936 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 82 76 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 73 244 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 77 80 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 107 415 15855
Distant metastases (%) 5 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 7 12 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 91 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 75 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 49 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 106 371 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 51 53 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 16 80 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 35 45 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 95 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 85 82
Rectal volume 16 88 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 213 695 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 40 45 36

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