University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates University College Hospital in London https://www.uclh.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
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • 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
    • On-site psychology services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 543 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 77 79 85
– Performance status (%) 40 67 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 360 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 13 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 54 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 35 28 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 7 4 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 85 91 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 543 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 73 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 33 120 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 100 92 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 109 360 18515
Distant metastases (%) 4 8 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 7 16 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 84 88 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 78 78 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 79 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 58 167 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 62 59 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 15 72 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 12 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 90 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 93 86 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 54 219 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 24 27 37

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