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 248 862 29766
Case ascertainment (%) 94 90 90
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 82 87 83
– Performance status (%) 98 99 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 139 394 16499
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 7 10
ASA grade 2 (%) 46 60 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 36 29 30
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 6 2 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 96 86

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 248 862 29766
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 95 93 86
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 55 228 7226
Undergoing major resection (%) 69 81 86

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 139 394 16474
Distant metastases (%) 7 8 6
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 11 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 90 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 53 60 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 62 62
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 100 277 10641
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 58 63 61

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 33 102 3899
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 34 38 32
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 88 95 86
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 79 86 79
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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