The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.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
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Outpatient Clinic
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
  • 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 224 2347 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 76 81 82
– Performance status (%) 12 64 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 166 1426 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 10 39 50
Performance status 1 (%) 6 21 22
Performance status 2 (%) 2 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 81 33 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 16 54 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 224 2347 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 60 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 94 94 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 166 1426 21702
Distant metastases (%) 8 6 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 13 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 60 54 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 70 77 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 46 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 81 738 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 38 68 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 31 24 34
Rectal volume 39 327 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 255 1626 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 51 38 35

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