United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln and Grantham

The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln and Grantham incorporates Lincoln County Hospital in Lincoln, Grantham and District Hospital in Grantham https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/

In 2015, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust split into United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln and Grantham and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Pilgrim Hospital Boston.

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 90 2005 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 36 87 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 46 63 78
– Performance status (%) 79 78 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 1249 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 12 11 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 65 56 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 27 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 83 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 90 2005 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 43 1249 19222
Distant metastases (%) 15 10 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 19 17 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 74 83 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 47 58 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 97 60 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 330 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 43 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) N/A 97 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 93 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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