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
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • 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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1547 29766
Case ascertainment (%) N/A 102 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) N/A 83 83
– Performance status (%) N/A 89 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 908 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 20 14 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 72 51 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 6 32 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 0 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 1 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 96 93 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1547 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) N/A 93 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients N/A 382 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) N/A 84 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 908 16474
Distant metastases (%) 15 7 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 2 20 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 68 85 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 19 62 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 87 66 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A 539 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A 57 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 23 192 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 79 55 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 92 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 74 85 79
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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