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 203 1785 30710
Case ascertainment (%) 91 96 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 90 76 76
– Performance status (%) 98 83 83
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 167 1155 19231
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 11 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 51 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 38 32 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 3 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 91 81

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 203 1785 30710
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 93 91

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 167 1155 19231
Distant metastases (%) 5 9 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 22 18 16
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 93 86 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 81 77 63
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 64 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 45 285 4468
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 47 43 35
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 22 26
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 7 4 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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