West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

The West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust incorporates Watford General Hospital, Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and St Alban's City Hospital http://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/

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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:
    • Robotic surgery
  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Support service facilities:
    • Dedicated nurses for ERAS services

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 246 4253 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 88 81 82
– Performance status (%) 91 75 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 2462 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 56 48 50
Performance status 1 (%) 25 26 22
Performance status 2 (%) 9 6 5
Performance status 3 (%) 5 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 5 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 82 65 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 246 4253 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 83 65 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 100 91 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 153 2462 21702
Distant metastases (%) 5 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 13 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 65 57 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 65 73 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 48 57 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 80 1372 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 51 63 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 25 28 34
Rectal volume 38 546 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 200 2595 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 34 34 35

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