University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Heartlands 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 PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • Surgical services:
    • On-site hepatobiliary surgical team
    • On-site thoracic surgical team
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced Nurse
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
    • Complex vascular reconstruction
    • Distal sacrectomy
    • High sacrectomy
    • Extended lymphadenectomy
    • HIPEC/cytoreductive surgery
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services
    • 7-day access to face-to-face palliative care services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 759 3 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 88 89 82
– Performance status (%) 85 85 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 441 2312 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 63 65 50
Performance status 1 (%) 21 19 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 5 5
Performance status 3 (%) 2 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 10 10 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 75 73 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 759 3815 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 80 76 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 92 95 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 441 2312 21702
Distant metastases (%) 10 9 7
Emergency surgery (%) 18 16 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 55 53 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 50 68 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 62 56 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 231 1328 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 63 69 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 53 33 34
Rectal volume 83 483 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 530 2603 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 34 36 35

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