United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln and Grantham incorporates Lincoln County Hospital in Lincoln, Grantham and District Hospital in Grantham and Pilgrim Hospital in Boston https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/

In 2015, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust split into United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln and Grantham and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Pilgrim Hospital Boston.

From 2022-2023, these trusts are once again reporting together as United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • Age Specific Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 466 2754 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 96 81 82
– Performance status (%) 91 77 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1486 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 64 50 50
Performance status 1 (%) 22 25 22
Performance status 2 (%) 7 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 6 18 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 83 56 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 466 2754 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 8 54 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 94 97 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 230 1486 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 8 7
Emergency surgery (%) 13 15 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 56 46 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 73 67 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 56 59 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 125 769 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 76 64 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 38 44 34
Rectal volume 51 342 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 257 1644 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 40 41 35

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