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 248 816 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 79 90 86
– Performance status (%) 96 98 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 150 444 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 64 54 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 23 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 13 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 248 816 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 72 223 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 89 78 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 150 444 15855
Distant metastases (%) 8 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 14 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 90 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 46 50 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 61 70 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 100 308 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 54 64 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 32 104 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 43 43 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 91 84 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 91 75 82
Rectal volume 24 113 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 165 505 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 27 36 36

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