Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, and Kidderminster Hospital http://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 394 3047 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 86 86
– Performance status (%) 100 82 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 213 1719 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 14 7 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 49 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 37 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 5 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 85 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 394 3047 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 82 83 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 128 762 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 81 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 213 1719 15855
Distant metastases (%) 5 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 23 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 93 84 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 95 63 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 41 51 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 137 1146 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 81 67 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 51 415 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 29 35 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 83 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 88 77 82
Rectal volume 49 406 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 269 2225 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 29 35 36

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