University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University Hospital in Birmingham https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/

In 2018, University Hospitals of Birmingham split into Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Heartlands Hospital.

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • Specialist colorectal surgeon on-call at all times
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site MRI liver facilities
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
  • Oncology services:
    • On-site chemotherapy services
    • On-site External Beam Radiotherapy services
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
  • 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 242 2837 30541
Case ascertainment (%) 105 88 93
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 70 80 78
– Performance status (%) 16 84 85
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 1814 19183
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 12 12
ASA grade 2 (%) 37 50 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 29 29 27
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) 27 7 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 1 76 83

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 242 2837 30424
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 96 95 93

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 124 1814 19222
Distant metastases (%) N/A 9 8
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 32 19 17
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) N/A 90 87
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 52 69 66
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) N/A 59 64

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 32 427 4503
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 52 31 36
Circumferential resection margin: Present (%) N/A 63 84
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 57 77
Rectal volume N/A N/A N/A
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate N/A N/A N/A
APER/Hartmanns (%) N/A N/A N/A

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