{"id":1372,"date":"2019-02-12T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:48:27","slug":"nhs-misdiagnosis-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/nhs-misdiagnosis-cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Misdiagnosis of Cervical Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has reported on the death of a former nurse, Julie O\u2019Connor, whose cervical cancer was misdiagnosed by the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, Mrs O\u2019Connor had a cervical smear in 2014 which returned a negative response.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, she was diagnosed privately with cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband has apparently requested that the coroner consider a public inquiry to try to ensure that the same experience does not affect other women.<\/p>\n<p>Although relatively rare, approximately 1000 women in the UK die from cervical cancer every year. It requires prompt diagnosis and treatment to avoid spreading to other parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to a solicitor<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one have suffered from the impact of a significant delay in diagnosing cancer, contact Glynns Solicitors to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has reported on the death of a former nurse, Julie O\u2019Connor, whose cervical cancer was misdiagnosed by the NHS. According to the BBC, Mrs O\u2019Connor had a cervical smear in 2014 which returned a negative response. Three years later, she was diagnosed privately with cervical cancer. Her husband has apparently requested that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1381,274],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-negligence","tag-cervical-cancer-diagnosis","tag-delayed-cancer-diagnosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}