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Summary & Timescale of the Data

General Information

The three data collection periods were:

  • 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012,
  • 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013 and
  • 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014

Surgeons who returned data for 2012 and/or 2013, but have stopped undertaking nephrectomies and did not return any 2014 data, are not displayed individually but their figures will still be included in the relevant unit data. 

Timeline for 2014 Data

31 Mar 2015 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
30 May 2015  Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
26 Jun 2015 Second summary of data sent to Consultant contributors for validation
31 Jul 2015 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
August 2015 Data extracted from the web-based database. Once extracted, the data was transferred to a Microsoft Access™ database for validation before being imported into Tableau™  for generation of the analyses
15 Sep 2015 All contributing surgeons sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented

2014 Figures for England

7,059 procedures were recorded from 321 consultants at 122 sites, including 204 private patients from 54 consultants (total from the UK for 2014 was 7703) 

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2014 indicate that there were 8,168 nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in 2014. Therefore, we captured data on 86% of the nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in England during 2014. 

  • Median number of cases per consultant: 16 (range 1 - 133)
  • Median number of cases per centre: 39 (range 1 - 286) 
 

2013 Figures for England

6,999 procedures were recorded from 320 consultants at 126 sites, including 169 private patients from 49 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2013 indicate that there were 7,478 nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in 2013. Therefore, we captured data on 94% of the nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in England during 2013.

95% of the cases were entered by hand, as opposed to being bulk-uploaded from datasets such as the Somerset Cancer Registry.

  • Median number of cases per consultant: 15 (range 1 – 118)
  • Median number of cases per centre: 39 (range 1 – 295)
 

2012 Figures for England

5,569 procedures were recorded from 303 consultants at 128 sites, including 140 private patients from 38 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2012 indicate that there were 7,178 nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in 2012. Therefore, we captured data on 78% of the nephrectomies undertaken by urologists in England during 2012.

93.3% of the cases were entered by hand, as opposed to being bulk-uploaded from datasets such as the Somerset Cancer Registry.

  • Median number of cases per consultant: 13 (range 1 – 106)
  • Median number of cases per centre: 35 (range 1 – 229)