Name: women 遭受乳腺癌治療的創傷！NHS 信任機構 | BBC 新聞 (Women 'traumatised' by breast cancer treatment at NHS trust | BBC News)
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A BBC investigation into breast cancer care provided by Durham and Darlington NHS Trust has Learned more than 200 patients have been harmed, including 43 who suffered significant harm.

英國廣播公司（BBC）對達蘭郡和達靈頓 NHS Trust 提供的乳癌照護進行的調查發現，有超過 200 名病患受到傷害，其中 43 人遭受了嚴重傷害。

Reports into the Trust have highlighted problems including missed cancers and mastectomies that may not have been necessary.

針對該 Trust 的報告指出了包括漏診癌症和可能不必要的乳房切除術等問題。

另有一例死亡案例也正在審查中。

Our health correspondent Sharon Barber has the story.

我們的健康線記者 Sharon Barber 為您報導。

In 2023, Kate Driver found a lump in breast.

2023 年，Kate Driver 在乳房發現了一個腫塊。

Her GP referred her for urgent investigations to an NHS two week wait breast clinic.

她的家庭醫生將她轉介到英國國民保健署（NHS）的兩週預約乳房診所進行緊急檢查。

I thought I was going to die, really like the hardest bit, I think kind of just being faced with your own mortality.

我真的覺得我快要死了，最難熬的部分，我想大概就是面對自己的死亡率。

Kate didn't know that the initial test that she had at the clinic was outdated and can cause delays in diagnosis.

凱特不知道她在診所做的初步檢查已經過時，可能會延誤診斷。

Her diagnosis was delayed for two months.

Waiting so long and having to chase everything up made it a hundred times worse than it needed to be.

漫長的等待和不斷追問，讓事情變得比實際需要的情況糟上百倍。

It just made it felt like no one really cared.

這讓我覺得好像沒人真的關心。

She moved her care to another trust and says she had a lucky escape.

她將照護轉移到另一個醫療機構，並表示她很幸運逃過一劫。

Kate is one of hundreds of patients who have suffered.

The medical records of nearly 1,600 patients are being examined.

近一千六百名病患的病歷正在被審查。

So far, more than 200 women have been found to have been harmed.

到目前為止，已有超過兩百名女性受害。

Harms include mastectomies that may not have been needed, cancers that were missed and delays in diagnosis.

傷害包括可能不必要的乳房切除術、錯過的癌症以及診斷延誤。

The BBC's also learned that multiple warnings of serious problems had been raised for more than a decade.

BBC 也得知，十多年來，有關嚴重問題的多項警告都已被提出。

Steve Russell started as the new Chief executive at the Trust in September.

Steve Russell 於九月開始擔任該信託的新執行長。

Had action been taken more swiftly, women may not have come to the same degree of harm as they have done.

如果行動能更迅速，女性可能就不會遭受如此程度的傷害。

It is not good enough that we were too slow to act on the information that was there.

我們對收到的資訊行動太慢，這是不夠好的。

I can only imagine the distress, the anger, the loss of trust that women will feel in the NHS and in our organisation.

我只能想像女性在英國國民保健署和我們組織中感受到的痛苦、憤怒和信任喪失。

And I'm determined to make changes so that that doesn't happen again.

我決心做出改變，以免再次發生這種情況。

The Trust has apologised to Kate for failures in her care.

該信託已就其照護上的疏失向 Kate 致歉。

This must be a huge shock for the patients of the trust, not least because of the numbers involved, which are extraordinary.

對於這家信託的病患來說，這肯定是一個巨大的衝擊，尤其考慮到涉及的數字，這些數字是驚人的。

Yes, Sarah, and I think this is only the beginning.

是的，Sarah，我認為這才只是個開始。

So of those near 1600 patient cases that are being investigated, that only goes back to 2023.

所以在近 1600 件正在調查的病患案例中，這僅僅是回溯到 2023 年的。

Our investigation has found that problems, really significant problems for women at this trust go back as early as 2012 and since then there have been multiple reports and reviews and warnings to the Trust.

我們的調查發現，在這家信託，女性遇到的問題，確實是嚴重的問題，可以追溯到 2012 年，從那時起，信託就收到了多份報告、審查和警告。

It's come under increasing scrutiny, scrutiny about the standard of the Breast cancer care and treatment.

它受到了越來越多的審查，關於乳房癌照護和治療標準的審查。

It's been offering patients problems like low high mastectomy rates and low rates of rebuilding the breast reconstruction, all sorts of problems, missing cancers.

它讓病患面臨諸如乳房切除術比率偏低，以及乳房重建比率偏低等問題，還有各種各樣的問題，漏診癌症。

So in 2019, a report was sent to the Trust warning of problems.

所以在 2019 年，一份報告被送交信託，警告了這些問題。

The real problem here is that the Trust didn't act on that.

這裡的真正問題是，信託並沒有對此採取行動。

They knew about it, they didn't act on that, they didn't do anything.

他們知道這件事，卻沒有採取行動，什麼都沒做。

Earlier this summer, we did a report from.

今年夏天稍早，我們做了一份來自...的報導。

We did another report that came through from the Royal College of Surgeons that again listed multiple, multiple serious problems.

我們又做了一份來自英國皇家外科學院的報告，再次列出了許多、許多嚴重的問題。

Before that, there was the Northern Cancer Reliance report into the Trust, but

在那之前，有北癌信託對該信託的調查報告，但是

And as we heard there from Steve Russell, the chief executive, he apologises and said had they taken action, that the women wouldn't have come to the same levels of harm as they have.

就像我們從執行長 Steve Russell 那裡聽到的，他為此道歉，並表示如果他們當時採取行動，女性就不會遭受如此嚴重的傷害。

And obviously he has apologized, he's the new chief executive, as you say.

顯然他已經道歉了，正如你所說，他是新任執行長。

But the Trust have admitted apologized for being too slow to act, but

但信託已經承認並為行動太慢而道歉，但是

that can't be much solace for the hundreds of women that have been involved in this over years.

這對數百年來受此影響的女性來說，並沒有太大的安慰。

Well, the truss has effectively been taken over.

嗯，這個信託基本上已經被接管了。

A number of senior managers have been moved on or clinical leaders have been changed.

一些高階主管已經被調離，或臨床領導者已經被更換。

The whole way that the breast cancer care was being operated has changed dramatically.

乳癌照護的整個營運方式已經大幅改變。

So what we've also discovered is that the clinical lead, the lead breast surgeon from the Trust at the time, was also contracted out to run private clinics on behalf of the Trust.

所以我們也發現，當時信託的臨床負責人、首席乳房外科醫生，也受聘為信託經營私人診所。

These were out of hours clinics that ran till very late at night, sometimes 11:30pm appointments.

這些是下班時間的診所，營運到很晚，有時預約到晚上11點半。

And what was really interesting and unusual about this trust was that that surgeon was being paid per patient or per appointment.

這家信託比較特別且不尋常的地方是，這位外科醫生是按病人或預約次數收費。

And through Freedom of Information request, we found out that companies that he was involved with, the clinics that he ran, were paid nearly £6 million in the last six years alone.

透過資訊自由請求，我們發現他參與的公司、他經營的診所，光是過去六年就收取了近6百萬英鎊。

So there are allegations and the Trust has accepted conflicts of interest elements here.

所以有指控，而信託也承認這裡有利益衝突的成分。

The women, yes, it's really very difficult for them because if your cancer was missed, and

女性們，是的，對她們來說真的很困難，因為如果她們的癌症被忽略了，而

we've spoken to so many women, if your cancer was missed and it spread, or if you had a mastectomy that you didn't need, it's too late, isn't it?

我們訪談了好多女性，如果她們的癌症被忽略而擴散了，或是她們做了不必要的乳房切除術，那時就太晚了，對吧？

And these women are traumatized, they're devastated.

這些女性身心受創，她們感到非常絕望。

Another really important piece of this story is the lack of compassion and care that they felt.

這個故事另一個非常重要的部分是，她們感受到的缺乏同情心與關懷。

So many women we have spoken to are so traumatized, not only to learn that they perhaps didn't need the surgery that they had, or perhaps their cancer was missed, but

我們訪談的許多女性都身心受創，不僅是得知自己可能做了不必要的腫瘤切除手術，或是癌症被忽略了，

it was the attitude shown to them by some staff that left them feeling really devastated and, yeah, angry.

更是因為一些員工的態度讓她們感到非常絕望，是的，也很憤怒。