{"id":89336,"date":"2026-05-17T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89336"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:16:47","slug":"cancer-patients-among-dozens-harmed-by-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/cancer-patients-among-dozens-harmed-by-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients among dozens harmed by delayed diagnosis and treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA23oaoC.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Cancer patients were among those who faced delays in their diagnosis and treatment (AFP\/Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Cancer<\/a>\u00a0patients are among dozens of people found to have been \u201charmed\u201d after their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">diagnosis<\/a>\u00a0and treatment\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/st-andrews-hospital-northampton-police-nhs-b2910164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">were delayed due to administrative failures<\/a>\u00a0at an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> trust,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/cancer-patients-among-dozens-harmed-by-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment\/ar-AA23oi1B?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a09d4cf0bfb4faeb718a0a68e57203d&amp;cvpid=5e716cfe50564628f4e04788d00e5db4&amp;ei=85\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cancer\u00a0patients are among dozens of people found to have been \u201charmed\u201d after their\u00a0diagnosis\u00a0and treatment\u00a0were delayed due to administrative failures\u00a0at an\u00a0NHS trust,\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89337,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89336\/revisions\/89337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}