Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

The Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary's Hospital Paddington, and Hammersmith Hospital in London https://www.imperial.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 hepatobiliary surgical team
    • 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 218 1968 28013
Case ascertainment (%) 100 76 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 79 71
– Performance status (%) 100 84 77
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 142 1310 18809
ASA grade 1 (%) 11 14 14
ASA grade 2 (%) 52 50 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 30 23 25
ASA grade 4+ (%) 8 4 3
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 10 5
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 98 78 82

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 218 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 142 1310 18809
Distant metastases (%) 11 11 9
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 3 14 16
Median number of lymph nodes excised 24 18 17
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 80 56 61
Length of stay > 5 days (%) 69 72 69

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 28 314 4769
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 26 39 37
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 14 10 25
Circumferential resection margin: Positive (%) 14 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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