East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates Eastbourne District General Hospital and Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea http://www.esht.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
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 238 1761 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 83 96 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 41 77 78
– Performance status (%) 38 80 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 151 1172 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 10 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 62 58 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 23 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 5 6 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 70 81 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 238 1761 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 97 79 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 151 1172 19222
Distant metastases (%) 5 7 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 7 31 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 90 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 34 74 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 68 64 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 40 260 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 32 27 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) 45 60 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 45 57 77
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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