Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Salford Royal Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, and Royal Oldham Hospital https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022-2023, outcomes were separately reported for Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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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:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 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 562 1796 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 91 81 82
– Performance status (%) 86 75 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 282 930 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 58 47 50
Performance status 1 (%) 20 24 22
Performance status 2 (%) 9 7 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 2 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 11 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 77 60 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 562 1796 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 78 62 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 96 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 282 930 21702
Distant metastases (%) 6 10 7
Emergency surgery (%) 17 17 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 48 46 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 52 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 55 62 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 172 540 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 63 63 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 29 47 34
Rectal volume 67 230 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 286 1011 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 40 35

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