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 212 3507 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 95 97 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 89 80 83
– Performance status (%) 75 86 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 131 2012 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 10 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 41 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 50 34 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 5 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 0 3 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 93 88 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 212 3507 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 95 86 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 44 854 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 87 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 131 2012 16474
Distant metastases (%) 6 4 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 23 16 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 80 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 85 74 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 52 59 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 64 1187 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 67 67 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 34 503 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 14 30 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 85 88 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 76 81 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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