The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Bournemouth General Hospital http://www.rbch.nhs.uk/

In 2020, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Bournemouth General Hospital merged into University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

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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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 254 1524 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 114 100 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 99 83 78
– Performance status (%) 100 80 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 966 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 60 56 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 27 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 5 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 92 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 254 1524 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 92 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 966 19222
Distant metastases (%) 2 6 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 12 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 76 87 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 76 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 69 61 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 251 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 7 22 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 84 94 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 81 89 77
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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