South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

The South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust incorporates South Tyneside District Hospital in South Shields https://www.stft.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 85 1895 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 97 95 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 91 74 71
– Performance status (%) 99 76 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 50 1267 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 9 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 42 49 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 44 35 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 6 5 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 89 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 85 1895 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 92 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 50 1267 18809
Distant metastases (%) 10 9 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 36 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 16 17 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 92 75 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 71 64 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 18 324 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 20 36 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 11 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 6 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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