The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1895 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 93 95 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 74 71
– Performance status (%) 99 76 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1267 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 9 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 49 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 41 35 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 5 5 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 2 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 89 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1895 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 92 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1267 18809
Distant metastases (%) 6 9 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 20 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 21 17 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 77 75 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 71 64 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 39 324 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 30 36 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 11 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 10 6 7
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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