Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust incorporates Maidstone Hospital in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, and Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 229 905 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Fair Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 90 77 86
– Performance status (%) 99 96 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 23 441 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 5 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 26 51 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 48 38 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 17 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 65 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 229 905 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 91 78 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 62 200 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 52 81 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 23 441 15855
Distant metastases (%) 19 8 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 9 18 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 87 77 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 13 57 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 91 53 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 13 316 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 54 54 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 65 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 28 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 85 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 75 82
Rectal volume N/A 68 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 123 548 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 45 36

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