East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital http://www.elht.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 243 912 31676
Case ascertainment (%) 99 100 95
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 92 89 80
– Performance status (%) 100 98 86
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 407 19218
ASA grade 1 (%) 13 9 11
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 61 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 33 28 28
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 2 1 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 97 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 243 912 31676
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 91 92 87
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 43 195 7416
Undergoing major resection (%) 77 86 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 157 407 19218
Distant metastases (%) 9 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 14 10 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 83 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 52 60 69
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 66 65 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 127 373 11837
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 65 62

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 48 114 4588
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 49 34 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 96 90
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 90 84 80
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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