Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Hexham General Hospital, Wansbeck Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital https://www.northumbria.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 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 430 2347 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 86 81 82
– Performance status (%) 67 64 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 218 1426 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 50 39 50
Performance status 1 (%) 25 21 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 20 33 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 74 54 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 430 2347 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 41 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 96 94 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 218 1426 21702
Distant metastases (%) 7 6 7
Emergency surgery (%) 12 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 48 54 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 75 77 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 42 46 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 112 738 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 69 68 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 10 24 34
Rectal volume 52 327 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 222 1626 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 34 38 35

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