County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

The County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust incorporates University Hospital of North Durham, Darlington Memorial Hospital, and Bishop Auckland Hospital https://www.cddft.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 MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 374 2347 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 92 81 82
– Performance status (%) 91 64 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 219 1426 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 51 39 50
Performance status 1 (%) 31 21 22
Performance status 2 (%) 11 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 7 33 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 78 54 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 374 2347 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 79 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 89 94 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 219 1426 21702
Distant metastases (%) 2 6 7
Emergency surgery (%) 20 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 54 54 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 74 77 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 58 46 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 109 738 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 66 68 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 24 24 34
Rectal volume 55 327 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 249 1626 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 31 38 35

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