Torbay and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Torbay Hospital in Torquay http://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk/

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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
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Intraoperative RTX
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 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 196 1001 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 89 86
– Performance status (%) 100 100 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 117 611 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 6 6 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 42 37 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 98 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 196 1001 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 87 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 66 318 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 79 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 117 611 15855
Distant metastases (%) 1 7 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 24 15 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 85 91 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 63 74 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 46 49 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 65 396 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 52 58 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 28 138 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 30 35 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 99 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 100 94 82
Rectal volume 23 135 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 125 752 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 23 39 36

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