Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester http://www.dchft.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 MRI liver facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 1551 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 100 104 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 74 73 71
– Performance status (%) 100 72 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 104 905 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 10 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 56 56 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 28 22 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 3 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 9 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 81 85 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 1551 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 90 88 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 104 905 18809
Distant metastases (%) 1 7 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 14 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 19 19 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 75 72 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 56 60 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 26 256 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 19 28 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 37 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) N/A 5 7
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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