{"id":82175,"date":"2025-08-21T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82175\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:34:08","slug":"nhs-grampian-and-orkney-apologise-for-cancer-patients-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82175\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Grampian and Orkney apologise for cancer patient&#8217;s care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SPSO investigated complaints raised by the patient&#8217;s family and ordered the health boards to apologise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said there was a failure to provide a reasonable standard of care and treatment to patient A, and that both authorities had failed to meet obligations on transparency around the patient&#8217;s care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The watchdog also made a number of recommendations for improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SPSO took advice from a cancer surgeon on the services provided to patient A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commenting on NHS Grampian, the watchdog said: &#8220;We found that there was a failure to provide a reasonable standard of care and treatment to A, particularly in relation to delays in initiating treatment for their colorectal (bowel) cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said reviews of the person&#8217;s care were inadequate, and that its handling of the complaint against it was &#8220;unreasonable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SPSO said about NHS Orkney: &#8220;We found that there was a failure to provide a reasonable standard of care and treatment to A, particularly in relation to a failure to mark an MRI scan request as urgent, and a failure to report the results of scopes in the normal way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SPSO investigated complaints raised by the patient&#8217;s family and ordered the health boards to apologise. It said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-82175","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\/82175","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=82175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}