Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Bedford Hospital

The Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Bedford Hospital incorporates Bedford Hospital https://www.bedfordshirehospitals.nhs.uk/

Outcomes for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 is at Trust level and includes data submitted by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Luton & Dunstable Hospital

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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
  • Support service facilities:
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 147 1867 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 85 86
– Performance status (%) 99 96 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 87 1016 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 11 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 36 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 8 1 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 77 93 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 147 1867 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 92 94 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 87 1016 19614
Distant metastases (%) 1 5 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 13 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 82 89 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 89 80 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 42 46 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 41 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 37 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 15 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 13 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 16 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 47 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 81 94 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 75 90 83
Rectal volume 15 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 64 936 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 47 34 37

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