University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Worthing Hospital, St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/

Prior to 2022-2023, outcomes were separately reported for Royal Sussex County Hospital, St Richard's Hospital and Worthing Hospital

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 803 2421 38604
Data completeness of:
– Completed stage 1-4 (%) 71 81 82
– Performance status (%) 65 76 74
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 473 1347 21702
Performance status 0 (%) 51 57 50
Performance status 1 (%) 21 18 22
Performance status 2 (%) 4 4 5
Performance status 3 (%) 1 1 1
Performance status 4 or not recorded (%) 23 20 21
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 62 67 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 803 2421 38604
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) information recorded (%) 56 63 65
Seen by CNS if CNS record present (%) 90 96 94

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 473 1347 21702
Distant metastases (%) 9 7 7
Emergency surgery (%) 14 11 13
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 52 49 53
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 67 59 65
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 55 52 59
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 243 765 12052
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 49 57 66

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 27 23 34
Rectal volume 88 243 4753
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 431 1212 23317
APER/Hartmanns (%) 36 30 35

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