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/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 3626 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 78 101 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 61 71 80
– Performance status (%) 100 89 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 2090 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) N/A 13 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 19 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 67 30 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 13 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 3 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) N/A 83 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 3626 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 86 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 23 756 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 91 83 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 2090 19218
Distant metastases (%) N/A 8 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 14 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 0 79 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 54 75 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 57 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A 1337 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A 55 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 17 533 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 25 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 88 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 80 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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