{"id":339874,"date":"2026-03-20T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339874\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:56:07","slug":"health-system-failings-led-to-delay-in-cancer-treatment-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339874\/","title":{"rendered":"Health system failings led to delay in cancer treatment &#8211; inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inquest heard Tinley had been in remission from a lymphoma that was found in 2017, but a biopsy on a lesion on his leg in December 2023 showed it had returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He underwent a CT scan in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coroner, Deputy Viscount Matt Berry, said the cancer had spread, including a mass in Tinley&#8217;s pelvis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that his GP surgery and the haematology and dermatology departments at Jersey General Hospital were all informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Tinley and his wife were not told until an annual oncology check-up in May 2024, and he did not start comprehensive treatment until July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inquest heard Tinley had been in remission from a lymphoma that was found in 2017, but a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-339874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}