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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 211 2000 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 91 103 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 93 77 80
– Performance status (%) 99 81 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 177 1222 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 14 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 48 42 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 44 33 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 4 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 7 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 88 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 211 2000 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 89 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 66 510 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 97 86 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 177 1222 19218
Distant metastases (%) 10 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 15 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 98 88 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 76 83 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 73 57 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 109 813 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 50 60 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 49 283 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 40 36 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 98 91 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 90 87 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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