Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

The Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust incorporates Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford http://www.dvh.nhs.uk/
Data completeness for risk adjustment for 2019-2020 poor at time of analysis. It had improved markedly by time of publication

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 203 1305 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 67 73 82
– Performance status (%) 69 72 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 119 796 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 44 47 50
Performance status 1 (%) 24 23 22
Performance status 2 (%) 5 3 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 26 25 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 37 52 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 203 1305 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 62 69 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 94 98 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 119 796 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 5 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 48 59 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 64 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 58 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 70 474 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 73 73 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 39 39 34
Rectal volume 19 143 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 112 743 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 26 37 35

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