Barts Health NHS Trust

The Barts Health NHS Trust incorporates Whipps Cross University Hospital, Newham General Hospital and The Royal London Hospital http://bartshealth.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:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 71 410 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Poor Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 96 85 86
– Performance status (%) 96 92 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 74 235 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 10 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 45 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 34 27 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 7 14 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 26 62 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 71 410 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 96 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 29 110 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 93 87 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 74 235 15855
Distant metastases (%) N/A 3 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 25 59 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 86 67 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 62 56 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 36 188 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 53 61 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 15 35 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 54 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 33 66 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 27 57 82
Rectal volume N/A 37 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 56 226 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 36 32 36

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