The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust incorporates The Christie Hospital in Manchester http://www.christie.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT 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
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1432 30541
Case ascertainment (%) N/A 92 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) N/A 75 78
– Performance status (%) N/A 88 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 78 938 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 26 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 49 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 6 29 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 19 3 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 68 89 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1432 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) N/A 97 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 78 938 19222
Distant metastases (%) 34 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 1 16 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 83 81 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 30 55 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 87 72 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 27 173 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 79 58 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 96 88 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 70 74 77
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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