{"id":475,"date":"2016-11-23T01:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T01:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?p=475"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:57:44","slug":"nice-guidance-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"NICE Guidance Flawed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015 NICE updated its guidelines relating to patients presenting to GPs with suspicious lesions or lumps in the mouth. It involved referral to a dentist within 2 weeks for assessment for a possible oral cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Why are the patients not being directed to a hospital at once? Delay in diagnosis always worsens the likely outcome.\u00a0 Given the strong link between social deprivation and these cancers how many of the patients will have a dentist to see?<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Express (Nov 22)\u00a0 and others reported on concerns about these guidelines, expressed in the British Journal of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwemail.co.uk\/news\/national\/article\/Dentist-referrals-could-delay-mouth-cancer-diagnosis-surgeons-warn-140ed42a-cdb6-4680-bbdd-9f54127eadb8-ds\" target=\"_blank\">Article Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015 NICE updated its guidelines relating to patients presenting to GPs with suspicious lesions or lumps in the mouth. It involved referral to a dentist within 2 weeks for assessment for a possible oral cancer. Why are the patients not being directed to a hospital at once? Delay in diagnosis always worsens the likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?p=475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NICE Guidance Flawed?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}