University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University Hospital in Birmingham https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/

In 2018, University Hospitals of Birmingham split into Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Heartlands Hospital.

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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 hepatobiliary surgical team
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 122 3058 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 66 96 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 52 72 71
– Performance status (%) 100 78 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 1920 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 33 13 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 55 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 6 25 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 4 7 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 63 74 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 122 3058 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 99 94 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 84 1920 18809
Distant metastases (%) 9 11 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 14 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 20 20 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 69 61 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 71 67 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 16 499 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 50 27 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 88 52 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 6 4 7
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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