West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

The West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust incorporates West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds http://www.wsh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • 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 172 2077 32641
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 83 85
– Performance status (%) 100 92 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 1166 18552
ASA grade 1 (%) 42 10 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 43 54 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 15 33 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 1 6
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 88 89

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 172 2077 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 94 89 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 53 610 8157
Undergoing major resection (%) 83 83 83

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 1166 18515
Distant metastases (%) 2 4 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 27 20 21
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 83 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 74 71
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 48 53 58
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 80 637 10335
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 51 55 63

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 17 253 4137
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 23 32 34
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 88 88 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 82 85 84
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 89 1175 17956
APER/Hartmanns (%) 28 32 37

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