West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

The West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust incorporates West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds http://www.wsh.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Advanced disease services:
    • Dedicated Specialist Advanced MDT
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 148 1808 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 100 82 86
– Performance status (%) 100 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 95 1002 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 24 8 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 72 56 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 4 30 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) N/A 2 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 4 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 91 84 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 148 1808 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 93 83 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 41 525 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 78 79 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 95 1002 15855
Distant metastases (%) 7 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 38 23 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 82 80 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 66 65 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 62 60 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 86 649 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 48 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 13 207 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 33 38 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 100 84 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 92 76 82
Rectal volume 17 201 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 115 1279 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 31 34 36

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