St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

The St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Whiston Hospital in Prescot and St Helens Hospital in St Helens http://www.sthk.nhs.uk/

View Trust Services

This trust offers the following services:

  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 246 1582 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 98 96 86
– Performance status (%) 100 98 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 139 882 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 10 11 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 47 56 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 40 29 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 3 1 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 1 3 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 87 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients
All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 246 1582 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 94 94 88

Management of patients having major resection
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 139 882 19614
Distant metastases (%) 2 3 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 16 16 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 83 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 86 69 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 66 64 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 93 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 65 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit N/A N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) N/A N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 33 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 26 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 86 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 91 75 83
Rectal volume 36 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 149 838 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 37 37

Compare trust outcomes

Copyright © 2024 National Bowel Cancer Audit | Lovingly Crafted by Mixd