{"id":295693,"date":"2025-12-02T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295693\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:07:08","slug":"new-18m-endoscopy-unit-in-leicester-will-cut-waiting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295693\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u00a318m endoscopy unit in Leicester &#8216;will cut waiting list&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sanjeev Pattni, a consultant gastroenterologist and co-head of service at UHL, said demand for the endoscopy procedure had increased over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We run a national bowel cancer screening programme&#8230;and the rate of detection is going up year on year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The new unit will allow us to meet demands and massively reduce the backlog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rachael Briggs, associate director of operations at the trust, said: &#8220;We know how important earlier diagnosis is for conditions such as cancer, which endoscopy procedures help to detect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Barton, the trust&#8217;s deputy chief executive, added: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want patients to wait for their care. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re making progress but units like this allow us to make a big step change in reducing waiting time for patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will treat 9,000 more patients a year through this unit and we will see a 300 reduction in our waiting lists every month.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Sanjeev Pattni, a consultant gastroenterologist and co-head of service at UHL, said demand for the endoscopy procedure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-295693","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}