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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • 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
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1302 28523
Case ascertainment (%) N/A Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) N/A 92 86
– Performance status (%) N/A 87 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 635 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 11 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 93 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 2 29 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 94 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 1301 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) N/A 90 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients N/A 320 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) N/A 73 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 635 15855
Distant metastases (%) 15 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 1 27 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 93 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 44 55 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 87 63 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 14 546 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 43 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 20 114 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 70 53 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 93 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 85 82 82
Rectal volume 30 121 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 101 855 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 87 44 36

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