Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust incorporates St Thomas' Hospital in London and Guy's Hospital in London http://www.guysandstthomas.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 PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • 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 114 1968 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 65 76 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 29 79 71
– Performance status (%) 18 84 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 112 1310 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 14 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 33 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 21 23 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 4 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) 34 10 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 23 78 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 1968 30122
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 100 95 92

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 112 1310 18809
Distant metastases (%) 40 11 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 15 14 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 15 18 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 31 56 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 83 72 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 45 314 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 55 39 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 2 10 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 20 11 7
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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