Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Southend University Hospital

The Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Southend University Hospital incorporates Southend Hospital https://www.mse.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • 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
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 210 1247 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 73 90 86
– Performance status (%) 100 93 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 760 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 55 51 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 38 32 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 10 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 210 1247 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 93 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 48 345 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 83 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 760 15855
Distant metastases (%) 15 9 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 19 16 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 89 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 77 70 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 51 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 67 426 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 60 59 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 30 176 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 23 23 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 93 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 87 82
Rectal volume 25 161 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 127 904 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 30 36 36

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