The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn http://www.qehkl.nhs.uk/
Data completeness for risk adjustment for 2019-2020 poor at time of analysis. It had improved markedly by time of publication

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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

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 2310 35779
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 99 86 86
– Performance status (%) 100 98 89
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 74 1175 19631
ASA grade 1 (%) 3 7 9
ASA grade 2 (%) 23 55 53
ASA grade 3 (%) 70 36 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 4 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 4
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 99 88 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 114 2310 35779
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 98 86 88

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 74 1175 19614
Distant metastases (%) 8 4 5
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 17 12 15
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 95 81 84
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 68 72
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 60 58 55
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 32 N/A 10747
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 47 N/A 62
Patients receiving chemotherapy after major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 14 N/A 6608
Severe acute toxicity after adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 37 N/A 22

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 14 N/A 4251
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 6 N/A 33
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 86 86 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 79 80 83
Rectal volume 14 N/A 4377
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 93 1244 19644
APER/Hartmanns (%) 42 35 37

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