{"id":379868,"date":"2026-04-07T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:57:13","slug":"bone-re-scans-another-example-of-health-inequalities-in-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/379868\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone re-scans ‘another example of health inequalities’ in Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The notes of 1,000 patients treated from January 2017 to January 2022 were reviewed and 270 of them were recalled for “re-scans”, with 20 patients being sent “duty of candour” letters.<\/p>\n

Doublet said: “If you look at the demographics of the people who are accessing these DEXA scans, external<\/a> it is overwhelmingly women and older members of our community.<\/p>\n

“So I’m concerned about the health inequalities in this area, because people in those categories are less likely to advocate for themselves if they feel something isn’t right.”<\/p>\n

The review into bone scans was linked to a previous review into the island’s rheumatology service<\/a>, which found in some cases patients were misdiagnosed or given the wrong medicine. <\/p>\n

In 2024, there was also a review into the island’s radiology department,<\/a> which found some women were given false negative results for breast cancer screenings.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a review into the island’s neurology department<\/a> found staff were overstretched.<\/p>\n

However, Doublet said these reviews were a good thing: “It is good we are hearing about these issues because knowing about them means we can tackle them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The notes of 1,000 patients treated from January 2017 to January 2022 were reviewed and 270 of them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-379868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}