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 341 3047 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 90 86 86
– Performance status (%) 98 82 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 236 1719 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 7 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 55 49 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 40 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 5 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 85 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 341 3047 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 83 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 115 762 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 91 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 236 1719 15855
Distant metastases (%) 5 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 6 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 86 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 69 63 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 146 1146 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 68 67 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 54 415 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 52 35 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 80 83 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 74 77 82
Rectal volume 45 406 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 248 2225 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 46 35 36

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