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:

  • 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 thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • 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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 299 2377 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 82 90 82
– Performance status (%) 86 97 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 219 1498 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 60 57 50
Performance status 1 (%) 21 31 22
Performance status 2 (%) 6 7 5
Performance status 3 (%) N/A 2 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 12 3 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 88 96 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 299 2377 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 78 96 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 100 92 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 219 1498 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 16 14 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 88 89 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 37 62 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 57 63 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 84 690 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 58 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 43 28 34
Rectal volume 48 313 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 151 1113 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 43 35

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