Swansea MDT

The Swansea MDT incorporates Singleton Hospital and Morriston Hospital in Swansea http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/863/home

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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
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 241 1933 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 106 110 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 74 89 80
– Performance status (%) 27 82 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 177 1220 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 9 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 59 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 29 30 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 84 92 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 241 1933 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 61 80 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 42 434 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 88 91 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 177 1220 19218
Distant metastases (%) 13 10 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 19 19 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 89 85 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 27 52 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 75 68 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A N/A 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A N/A 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 48 291 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 17 30 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 88 91 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 85 86 80
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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