West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

The West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Watford General Hospital, Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and St Alban's City Hospital http://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/

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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 PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 278 1867 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 96 85 86
– Performance status (%) 100 96 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1016 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 28 11 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 53 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 18 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 1 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 93 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 278 1867 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 94 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 160 1016 19614
Distant metastases (%) 4 5 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 12 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 89 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 90 80 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 36 46 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 72 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 55 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 98 94 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 95 90 83
Rectal volume 55 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 184 936 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 27 34 37

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