Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

The Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton http://www.tsft.nhs.uk/

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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
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • 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 183 1696 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 99 101 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 61 60 76
– Performance status (%) 99 94 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 1011 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 28 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 26 4 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 67 89 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 183 1696 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 94 93 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 97 1011 19231
Distant metastases (%) 2 7 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 29 15 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 87 89 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 78 71 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 43 59 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 17 236 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 22 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 59 33 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 3 7
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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