Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust incorporates Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan http://www.wwl.nhs.uk/

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This trust offers the following services:

  • Diagnostic and pre-operative services:
    • On-site PET-CT facilities
    • Routine Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome
  • 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 132 1302 28523
Case ascertainment (%) Good Good Good
Data completeness of:
– Pre-treatment TNM (%) 92 92 86
– Performance status (%) 76 87 88
Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 635 15891
ASA grade 1 (%) 5 11 8
ASA grade 2 (%) 51 55 52
ASA grade 3 (%) 42 29 31
ASA grade 4+ (%) 2 3 2
ASA grade not recorded (%) N/A 2 7
Data completeness of:
7 Audit items for risk-adjustment (%) 84 94 87

Key:

> 80%
50 - 80%
< 50%

Management of all patients

All Patients: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 132 1301 28523
Seen by Clinical Nurse Specialist (%) 68 90 85
All patients deemed potentially curative Trust Network National
Number of potentially curative patients 27 320 7393
Undergoing major resection (%) 74 73 82

Management of patients having major resection

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit 43 635 15855
Distant metastases (%) 6 6 7
Urgent or emergency surgery (%) 30 27 20
At least 12 lymph nodes excised (%) 79 87 86
Laparoscopic surgery attempted (%) 37 55 67
Risk-adjusted length of stay > 5 days (%) 64 63 56
Patients having major resection for stage III colon cancer: Trust Network National
Number of patients in audit 50 546 10794
Adjuvant chemotherapy (%) 52 57 60

Rectal cancer patients

Patients having major resection: Trust Network National
Number of patients in Audit N/A 114 3481
Neoadjuvant therapy (%) N/A 53 38
Circumferential resection margin: Recorded (%) N/A 93 89
Circumferential resection margin: Negative (%) N/A 82 82
Rectal volume N/A 121 3374
Patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate: Trust Network National
Number of patients in APER/Hartmanns estimate 44 855 19595
APER/Hartmanns (%) 30 44 36

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