Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Arrowe Park Hospital in Birkenhead and Clatterbridge Hospital in Wirral http://www.wuth.nhs.uk/

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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:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • 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 246 1 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 93 86 82
– Performance status (%) 95 80 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 138 972 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 61 56 50
Performance status 1 (%) 31 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 5 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 2 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 1 12 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 86 71 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 246 1814 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 73 70 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 90 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 138 972 21702
Distant metastases (%) 7 9 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 32 47 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 51 51 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 67 66 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 72 570 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 64 59 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 41 38 34
Rectal volume 34 198 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 142 1007 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 40 37 35

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