Friday, 1 December 2017

Portsmouth hospital missed lung cancer cases

Portsmouth hospital missed lung cancer cases A hospital failed to spot cases of lung cancer because it did not check patients' chest X-rays properly, the Care Quality Commission has found.

The health watchdog found that three patients at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth suffered "significant harm".

It emerged that junior doctors complained they had been asked to carry out specialist radiology work without the appropriate training.


The CQC has now launched a review of NHS radiology services in England.

All NHS bodies have been instructed to provide details about their backlogs, turnaround times, staffing and arrangements for routine reporting of images. BBC News

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