Weston Area Health NHS Trust

The Weston Area Health NHS Trust incorporates Weston General Hospital in Weston-super-Mare http://www.waht.nhs.uk/

In 2020, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and Weston Area Health NHS Trust merged into University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation 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 MRI liver facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 2718 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 101 97 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 67 76 71
– Performance status (%) 100 79 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 53 1703 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 15 13 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 28 28 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 2 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 4 1 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 74 86 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 2718 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 97 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 53 1703 18809
Distant metastases (%) 15 7 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 8 15 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 14 17 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 47 72 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 63 59 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 15 454 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 70 29 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 47 29 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 20 7 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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