University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - Royal Stoke University Hospital incorporates Royal Stoke University Hospital (formerly City General Hospital) in Stoke-on-Trent http://www.uhnm.nhs.uk

In 2015, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - Royal Stoke University Hospital and University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - County Hospital merged into University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • 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:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 409 3482 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Fair Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 85 83 86
– Performance status (%) 90 90 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 308 2135 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 4 5 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 46 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 45 34 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 4 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 4 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 92 87 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 409 3482 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 89 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 308 2135 19614
Distant metastases (%) 2 4 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 24 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 81 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 72 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 49 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 147 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 70 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 103 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 23 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 64 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 48 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 95 88 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 83 81 83
Rectal volume 65 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 247 2273 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 48 38 37

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