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 221 1247 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 93 90 86
– Performance status (%) 99 93 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 131 760 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 64 51 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 25 32 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 10 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 95 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 221 1247 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 93 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 65 345 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 83 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 131 760 15855
Distant metastases (%) 6 9 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 16 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 94 89 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 83 70 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 38 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 79 426 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 53 59 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 41 176 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 24 23 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 98 93 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 93 87 82
Rectal volume 35 161 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 140 904 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 27 36 36

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