The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust incorporates New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton http://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.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 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 41 2837 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 15 88 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 93 80 78
– Performance status (%) 93 84 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 22 1814 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) N/A 12 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 14 50 52
ASA grade 3 (%) N/A 29 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 86 7 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 14 76 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 41 2837 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 95 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 22 1814 19222
Distant metastases (%) 9 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 5 19 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 90 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 64 69 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 59 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 427 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 31 31 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) N/A 63 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 57 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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