University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust incorporates Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, and Leicester General Hospital http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • 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 517 2754 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 85 81 82
– Performance status (%) 58 77 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 259 1486 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 48 50 50
Performance status 1 (%) 20 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 3 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 27 18 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 49 56 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 517 2754 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 63 54 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 100 97 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 259 1486 21702
Distant metastases (%) 8 8 7
Emergency surgery (%) 19 15 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 37 46 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 64 67 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 68 59 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 117 769 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 60 64 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 82 44 34
Rectal volume 73 342 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 347 1644 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 46 41 35

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