{"id":503,"date":"2015-05-21T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-05-21T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:42:07","slug":"thousands-of-cancer-patient-are-being-failed-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/thousands-of-cancer-patient-are-being-failed-says-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThousands of Cancer Patient Are Being Failed\u201d, Says Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cancer Research UK has said that cancer patients in England are not being treated quickly enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Official targets state that the NHS in England should provide at least 85% of cancer patients with treatment within 62 days of a GP referral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is vital for cancer patients, whose chances of survival greatly improve with early treatment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The charity says the 62 day target was missed in the last financial year, with more than 21,000 patients facing delays in cancer care. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBreaches have become a trend\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sara Hion, the director of early diagnosis at Cancer Research UK, said: \u201cThis is the worst result since records began in 2009.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThousands of cancer patients are being failed. Patients want confidence that suspected cancer is taken seriously and prioritised by the NHS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThese breaches have become a trend, and they are worsening. This is why urgent action must be taken to support the NHS to ensure it has the resources it needs to meet this challenge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you or your family member is facing a poor prognosis because medical practitioners failed to diagnose and treat cancer in a timely manner, please contact us today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If there has been a case of substandard medical care, you could be eligible to pursue a claim for compensation. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer Research UK has said that cancer patients in England are not being treated quickly enough. Official targets state that the NHS in England should provide at least 85% of cancer patients with treatment within 62 days of a GP referral. This is vital for cancer patients, whose chances of survival greatly improve with early [&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":[102,512,513,166,274],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-negligence","tag-cancer-care","tag-cancer-research-uk","tag-cancer-treatment-targets","tag-delayed-cancer-care","tag-delayed-cancer-diagnosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}