Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Great Western Hospital in Swindon http://www.gwh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 228 890 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 48 68 86
– Performance status (%) 85 69 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 159 508 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 8 14 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 35 46 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 38 22 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 19 17 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 79 82 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 228 890 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 87 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 39 191 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 90 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 159 508 15855
Distant metastases (%) 5 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 18 24 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 90 93 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 61 67 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 74 55 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 101 359 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 47 124 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 17 28 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 94 97 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 89 90 82
Rectal volume 46 122 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 188 669 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 38 33 36

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