An NHS trust has been told it must take action after a woman’s cancer diagnosis was delayed for about one year before she died.<\/p>\n
Gloria Monte, 79, died of lung cancer at Nottingham City Hospital on 2 May 2025.<\/p>\n
An inquest at Nottingham Coroner’s Court, which concluded in August, heard a nodule was discovered on her lung in February 2024, and although she was told it “could be” a primary lung tumour, it was never investigated. She was diagnosed with cancer the following year.<\/p>\n
The inquest found there had been a delay in her diagnosis “due to individual and systemic omissions in her medical care” by Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust, which has apologised to Monte’s family.<\/p>\n
Coroner Laurinda Bower issued a prevention of future deaths report – a notice by coroners to highlight areas where action is needed to stop similar deaths – to NUH over concerns raised during the inquest.<\/p>\n
Manjeet Shehmar, NUH medical director, said the trust was “deeply sorry for the missed opportunities identified during the inquest”, and said staff were committed to improving patient safety.<\/p>\n
The inquest – detailed in the coroner’s report, which was published on 19 October – heard Monte had been to the emergency department (ED) in February 2024 after a fall and underwent a chest X-ray and CT scan. <\/p>\n
A report of the scan found injuries and a 14mm nodule on Monte’s lung, which was described by a radiologist as “likely incidental but could be a primary lung tumour”. <\/p>\n
The ED doctor noted the incidental finding and referred Monte to the major trauma unit, with an expectation she would be referred to the multi-disciplinary team that dealt with lung nodules.<\/p>\n
However, the major trauma doctor determined Monte did not need to be admitted, and no referral was made. <\/p>\n
Her GP was also not tasked with actioning a referral or follow-up, according to the coroner’s report.<\/p>\n
A number of follow-up appointments took place throughout the year, but no reference was made to the lung nodule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NHS trust has been told it must take action after a woman’s cancer diagnosis was delayed for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815289","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=815289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}