University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital https://www.uhmb.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
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 314 1100 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 77 89 86
– Performance status (%) 97 98 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 154 553 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 13 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 71 57 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 14 20 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 6 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 7 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 75 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 314 1100 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 95 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 154 553 19614
Distant metastases (%) 9 7 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 78 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 56 62 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 68 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 104 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 56 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 57 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 14 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 39 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 36 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 92 79 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 82 70 83
Rectal volume 43 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 162 524 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 24 37 37

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