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
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 217 2234 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 94 85
– Performance status (%) 50 83 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 1170 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 6 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 35 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 6 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 3 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 65 89 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 217 2234 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 38 82 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 54 469 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 78 85 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 123 1170 18515
Distant metastases (%) 7 8 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 99 100 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 80 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 27 53 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A N/A 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 89 578 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 62 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 37 273 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A N/A 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 57 87 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 57 82 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 191 1138 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 45 45 37

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