{"id":394381,"date":"2026-04-16T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:05:11","slug":"death-of-surrey-man-prompts-skin-cancer-healthcare-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394381\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Surrey man prompts skin cancer healthcare concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his report, the coroner said guidelines stated that patients with high risk squamous cell carcinoma should be referred to a specialist team, which should have occurred after the skin cancer was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care (Nice) is treated as mandatory in the NHS, but use of the guidance privately was &#8220;less clear&#8221;, the coroner added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The consequence is that patients treated privately are at risk of receiving inferior care to those treated under the NHS, often within the same physical hospital setting,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report has been sent to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Royal College of Surgeons, who must reply by 3 June setting out what they intend to do to prevent future deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Royal College of Surgeons said it recognised the coroner had raised concern about standards for patients treated privately, adding: &#8220;It is absolutely vital that private providers and the wider healthcare sector learn from the coroner&#8217;s findings to help ensure safe, high quality care for all patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC has also been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his report, the coroner said guidelines stated that patients with high risk squamous cell carcinoma should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-394381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394381","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=394381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}