The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn http://www.qehkl.nhs.uk/
Data completeness for risk adjustment for 2019-2020 poor at time of analysis. It had improved markedly by time of publication

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 4253 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 89 81 82
– Performance status (%) 87 75 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 94 2462 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 52 48 50
Performance status 1 (%) 32 26 22
Performance status 2 (%) 9 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 5 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 83 65 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 4253 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 62 65 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 97 91 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 94 2462 21702
Distant metastases (%) 13 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 73 57 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 73 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 66 57 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 53 1372 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 55 63 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 15 28 34
Rectal volume 22 546 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 115 2595 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 43 34 35

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