London North West Hospitals NHS Trust

The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates St Mark's Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, London and Ealing Hospital http://www.lnwh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 294 1667 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 76 82 82
– Performance status (%) 21 50 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 183 965 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 26 33 50
Performance status 1 (%) 11 18 22
Performance status 2 (%) 2 2 5
Performance status 3 (%) N/A 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 61 45 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 24 40 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 294 1667 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 56 59 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 99 98 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 183 965 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 7 12 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 43 49 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 62 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 63 74 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 79 555 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 66 68 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 49 42 34
Rectal volume 73 236 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 295 1149 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 39 31 35

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