Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Royal Free Hospital incorporates the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital in London https://www.royalfree.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
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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 N/A 322 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Poor Fair Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) N/A 80 86
– Performance status (%) N/A 59 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 206 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) N/A 7 8
ASA grade 2 (%) N/A 47 52
ASA grade 3 (%) N/A 35 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 9 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) N/A 85 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 322 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) N/A 82 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 20 79 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 80 82 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 206 15855
Distant metastases (%) N/A 7 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) N/A 15 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) N/A 91 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) N/A 79 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 73 65 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 59 179 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 63 63 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 45 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 60 27 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 91 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 87 82
Rectal volume 10 45 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 103 245 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 37 26 36

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