University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - Royal Stoke University Hospital

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:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
    • 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 thoracic surgical team
  • 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 279 3058 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 75 96 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 78 72 71
– Performance status (%) 95 78 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 193 1920 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 7 13 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 44 52 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 16 25 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 30 7 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 31 74 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 279 3058 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 94 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 193 1920 18809
Distant metastases (%) 19 11 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 14 18 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 15 20 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 84 61 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 60 67 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 38 499 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 63 27 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 95 52 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 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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