Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading http://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • 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 48 890 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Poor Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 54 68 86
– Performance status (%) 73 69 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 33 508 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 14 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 64 46 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 27 22 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 17 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 97 82 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 48 890 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 81 94 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 10 191 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 90 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 33 508 15855
Distant metastases (%) 6 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 24 24 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 92 93 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 79 67 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 56 55 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 60 359 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 53 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 124 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 31 28 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 97 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 90 82
Rectal volume 13 122 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 129 669 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 33 36

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