Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Whiston Hospital in Prescot and St Helens Hospital in St Helens, Southport & Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk & District General Hospital http://www.sthk.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022-2023, outcomes were separately reported for Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 352 1 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 92 86 82
– Performance status (%) 78 80 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 260 972 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 52 56 50
Performance status 1 (%) 24 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 7 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 3 2 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 15 12 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 73 71 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 352 1814 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 76 70 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 94 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 260 972 21702
Distant metastases (%) 8 9 7
Emergency surgery (%) 17 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 53 47 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 47 51 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 65 66 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 147 570 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 59 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 35 38 34
Rectal volume 42 198 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 251 1007 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 50 37 35

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