Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust incorporates Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford https://www.sath.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 457 3482 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 75 83 86
– Performance status (%) 100 90 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 280 2135 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 9 5 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 53 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 36 34 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 4 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 4 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 87 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 457 3482 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 89 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 280 2135 19614
Distant metastases (%) 2 4 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 24 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 86 82 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 62 72 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 44 49 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 144 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 78 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 113 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 23 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 51 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 19 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 80 88 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 78 81 83
Rectal volume 54 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 249 2273 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 44 38 37

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