The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley http://dudleygroup.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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 185 3445 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 95 100 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 74 79 80
– Performance status (%) 95 88 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 107 2169 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 11 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 36 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 41 30 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 6 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 11 3 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 56 82 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 185 3445 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 88 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 42 845 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 76 88 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 107 2169 19218
Distant metastases (%) 16 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 21 17 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 68 77 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 82 74 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 60 58 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 97 1249 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 71 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 27 535 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 19 31 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 67 88 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 48 80 80
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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