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 Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • 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 188 1985 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 93 83 82
– Performance status (%) 80 86 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 127 1159 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 46 63 50
Performance status 1 (%) 27 21 22
Performance status 2 (%) 6 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 4 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 17 10 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 71 68 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 188 1985 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 80 64 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 95 95 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 127 1159 21702
Distant metastases (%) 6 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 13 12 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 56 41 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 68 71 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 46 57 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 76 594 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 57 59 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 6 28 34
Rectal volume 29 285 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 120 1182 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 32 29 35

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