Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Arrowe Park Hospital in Birkenhead and Clatterbridge Hospital in Wirral http://www.wuth.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Acute services:
    • On-site bowel stenting facilities
  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • On-site Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) 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
    • Availability of 24 hour palliative care advice

Data Quality

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1200 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 97 96 86
– Performance status (%) 100 97 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 636 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 12 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 59 57 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 35 28 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 1 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A N/A 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 100 98 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 206 1200 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 83 91 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 40 320 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 73 83 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 102 636 15855
Distant metastases (%) 4 5 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 20 25 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 88 92 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 68 66 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 55 60 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 79 519 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 51 55 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 25 124 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) 35 44 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) 96 94 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) 84 84 82
Rectal volume 23 124 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 107 862 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 40 36 36

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