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 |
Key:
- > 80%
- 50 - 80%
- < 50%
Management of all patients
Management of patients having major resection
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 |