Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - North Devon District Hospital

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust incorporates North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple https://www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 162 1146 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 73 90 86
– Performance status (%) 64 94 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 69 638 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 17 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 54 54 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 29 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 83 97 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 162 1146 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 93 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 69 638 19614
Distant metastases (%) 2 9 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 13 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 81 88 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 74 73 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 50 46 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 44 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 52 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 23 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 21 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 14 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 52 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 36 91 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 29 82 83
Rectal volume 17 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 79 774 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 35 41 37

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