Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

The Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust incorporates Northampton General Hospital http://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
  • 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 MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • 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 227 2754 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 90 81 82
– Performance status (%) 80 77 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 161 1486 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 50 50 50
Performance status 1 (%) 21 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 11 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 17 18 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 61 56 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 227 2754 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 81 54 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 96 97 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 161 1486 21702
Distant metastases (%) 11 8 7
Emergency surgery (%) 12 15 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 62 46 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 67 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 54 59 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 84 769 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 61 64 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 11 44 34
Rectal volume 40 342 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 171 1644 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 32 41 35

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