This is very sad.
The NHS is crumbling away-It used to be the jewel of the Welfare state,but people are having to go private,if they can afford,or suffer,if they can’t.
I’m not clicking on a link to a Daily Mail article.
But considering that their preferred party have been in Government (inexplicably, to me) for so long – and have been purposely running down the NHS (along with everything else) – the headline paints of a picture of an unsurprising chain of events…
Happy to pay for removal, but not happy to pay to get a test done to see if the growth was malignant. That makes sense…
The title is a bit misleading, he got the lesion removed privately but did not pay extra to get the sample analysed. By the time he did see an NHS specialist some time after this, as it was still bothering him, the cancer had already spread. Over a year previously he had gone to the GP who had said it did not fit the criteria for referral.
>A coroner has issued a warning after a 24-year-old man died of skin cancer following his decision not to pay for a private medical test that may have spotted the disease.
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>Gregor Lynn went to his GP in 2019 complaining about a ‘nuisance’ lesion on the back of his neck but was told it did not fit health service criteria for further investigation.
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>He then paid £140 to have it removed privately but opted not to cough up the extra £65 to have samples sent for analysis to see if it was malignant – a procedure which would have been free on the NHS, an inquest heard.
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I don’t want to sound like a cunt here, but….
To blame the NHS for a persons own reluctance to follow up on results is a stretch (he had the procedure done privately). Even to suggest that he was refused care by his GP is astonishingly underhanded; even for the DM
Yet asylum seekers and illegal immigrants from so called war torn countries get hotels, food, medicine and so on for free without lifting a finger. Poor guy, failed by our system and incompetent/overpaid GP.
Yes I know, your assertion that it’s because of the NHS crumbling isn’t relevant.
If anything you could say the Dr just didn’t give it proper consideration and fobbed him off with “criteria”
Im currently waiting to be seen by a consultant for a crippling pain that leaves me vomiting and passing out regularly. But won’t worry because the NHS can see me in 2026…fuck everyone who voted these Tory cunts into power and allowed the NHS to get so fucked. Evil self serving Tory bastards!
I can’t imagine paying £140+ a month on NI, then being told you can’t use the NHS service until you pay £200+ on private treatment first lol…
What people are not understanding here is not ever cancerous mole appears cancerous initially. Fairly common to reassure patient that they can monitor for a few weeks/month and to come back to see if has changed before ref.
Hard enough to see a specialist. Cant be clogging the clinics up with benign lesion.
What went wrong here was the patient chose to go private but declined to pay for histology. If he has left it he would have no doubt noted a change > back to the GP > dermatology
The Daily Mail bears responsibility for the shambles the NHS is in. Its time for proper government, not a bunch of talentless daddy’s money coked up rich boys.
Well quite right too. If I wanted a Rolls Royce or a yacht I wouldn’t expect it to be free. This kind of entitlement is the result of having woke leftists controlling everything.
The lesion obviously didn’t look like cancer to his GP nor the dermatologist who removed it as a nuisance benign lesion. If private dermatology thought it looked like cancer, they would certainly if treated it as such. Even if that meant firing him into the NHS system for histopathology.
This is a case of a misdiagnosis of a skin lesion that was obviously a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It happens albeit rarely.
Nothing to do with incompetence of the nhs fucking up tbh.
We have to remember that a huge swath of the NHS’ issues come from years of purposefully poor government upkeep and policy. But yeah- I have pneumonia right now and was told by an urgent care doctor on New Year’s day to get bloods and an x ray (I also have a health condition which complicates things) and my GP’s response was “just go home and rest and take your antibiotics, drink water”. 1 yeah I wasn’t planning on running a marathon any time soon and 2 I just want tests doing to make sure im being treated with the right antibiotics.
It’s so depressing.
I have ulcerated BCC vs SCC 0.6cm diagnosed end of November, referred for urgent deep shave and histology. Still waiting and the GP also wants another investigated. What will be will be. Am I afraid of death? Nope but I would rather avoid it.
Well, he could have pushed to get a test, I certainly would. Could have paid the £65 and maybe saved his life.
I’ve said this before and i will say this again. This is what the goverment want. They want the nhs to crumble at its knees. They want junior doctors on strike regardless of what tory politicans say. they want it to be so bad that it becomes easier to privatise (like dentistry)
Tory politicians especially and pretty much every politician goin dont care because they all use private healthcare.
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This is very sad.
The NHS is crumbling away-It used to be the jewel of the Welfare state,but people are having to go private,if they can afford,or suffer,if they can’t.
I’m not clicking on a link to a Daily Mail article.
But considering that their preferred party have been in Government (inexplicably, to me) for so long – and have been purposely running down the NHS (along with everything else) – the headline paints of a picture of an unsurprising chain of events…
Happy to pay for removal, but not happy to pay to get a test done to see if the growth was malignant. That makes sense…
The title is a bit misleading, he got the lesion removed privately but did not pay extra to get the sample analysed. By the time he did see an NHS specialist some time after this, as it was still bothering him, the cancer had already spread. Over a year previously he had gone to the GP who had said it did not fit the criteria for referral.
Archived version here: [https://archive.li/WB3Yn](https://archive.li/WB3Yn)
Article begins:
>A coroner has issued a warning after a 24-year-old man died of skin cancer following his decision not to pay for a private medical test that may have spotted the disease.
>
>Gregor Lynn went to his GP in 2019 complaining about a ‘nuisance’ lesion on the back of his neck but was told it did not fit health service criteria for further investigation.
>
>He then paid £140 to have it removed privately but opted not to cough up the extra £65 to have samples sent for analysis to see if it was malignant – a procedure which would have been free on the NHS, an inquest heard.
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I don’t want to sound like a cunt here, but….
To blame the NHS for a persons own reluctance to follow up on results is a stretch (he had the procedure done privately). Even to suggest that he was refused care by his GP is astonishingly underhanded; even for the DM
Yet asylum seekers and illegal immigrants from so called war torn countries get hotels, food, medicine and so on for free without lifting a finger. Poor guy, failed by our system and incompetent/overpaid GP.
Yes I know, your assertion that it’s because of the NHS crumbling isn’t relevant.
If anything you could say the Dr just didn’t give it proper consideration and fobbed him off with “criteria”
Im currently waiting to be seen by a consultant for a crippling pain that leaves me vomiting and passing out regularly. But won’t worry because the NHS can see me in 2026…fuck everyone who voted these Tory cunts into power and allowed the NHS to get so fucked. Evil self serving Tory bastards!
I can’t imagine paying £140+ a month on NI, then being told you can’t use the NHS service until you pay £200+ on private treatment first lol…
What people are not understanding here is not ever cancerous mole appears cancerous initially. Fairly common to reassure patient that they can monitor for a few weeks/month and to come back to see if has changed before ref.
Hard enough to see a specialist. Cant be clogging the clinics up with benign lesion.
What went wrong here was the patient chose to go private but declined to pay for histology. If he has left it he would have no doubt noted a change > back to the GP > dermatology
The Daily Mail bears responsibility for the shambles the NHS is in. Its time for proper government, not a bunch of talentless daddy’s money coked up rich boys.
Well quite right too. If I wanted a Rolls Royce or a yacht I wouldn’t expect it to be free. This kind of entitlement is the result of having woke leftists controlling everything.
The lesion obviously didn’t look like cancer to his GP nor the dermatologist who removed it as a nuisance benign lesion. If private dermatology thought it looked like cancer, they would certainly if treated it as such. Even if that meant firing him into the NHS system for histopathology.
This is a case of a misdiagnosis of a skin lesion that was obviously a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It happens albeit rarely.
Nothing to do with incompetence of the nhs fucking up tbh.
We have to remember that a huge swath of the NHS’ issues come from years of purposefully poor government upkeep and policy. But yeah- I have pneumonia right now and was told by an urgent care doctor on New Year’s day to get bloods and an x ray (I also have a health condition which complicates things) and my GP’s response was “just go home and rest and take your antibiotics, drink water”. 1 yeah I wasn’t planning on running a marathon any time soon and 2 I just want tests doing to make sure im being treated with the right antibiotics.
It’s so depressing.
I have ulcerated BCC vs SCC 0.6cm diagnosed end of November, referred for urgent deep shave and histology. Still waiting and the GP also wants another investigated. What will be will be. Am I afraid of death? Nope but I would rather avoid it.
Well, he could have pushed to get a test, I certainly would. Could have paid the £65 and maybe saved his life.
I’ve said this before and i will say this again. This is what the goverment want. They want the nhs to crumble at its knees. They want junior doctors on strike regardless of what tory politicans say. they want it to be so bad that it becomes easier to privatise (like dentistry)
Tory politicians especially and pretty much every politician goin dont care because they all use private healthcare.