{"id":4462,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/throat\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:14:55","slug":"throat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/entadult\/throat\/","title":{"rendered":"Throat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most throat symptoms can be assessed and managed in primary care. Tonsillectomy is now only undertaken if there are significant, frequent, documented episodes of tonsillitis, affecting quality of life: tonsillar stones are not treated by the NHS in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-alert-red-color\">Persistent sore throat and hoarseness need full assessment. For an overview of ENT CANCER RED FLAG THROAT SYMPTOMS \u2013 please see:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/neck-lump-and-throat-cancer-risk-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neck Lump and Throat Cancer Risk Assessment<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancerreferral.scot.nhs.uk\/head-and-neck-cancers\/?alttemplate=guideline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scottish Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk\/scottish-referral-guidelines-for-suspected-cancer\/head-and-neck-and-thyroid-cancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Head and neck and thyroid cancers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Full details of services and contact details are on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/entadult\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ENT welcome page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CM 12\/12\/25<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most throat symptoms can be assessed and managed in primary care. Tonsillectomy is now only undertaken if there are significant, frequent, documented episodes of tonsillitis, affecting quality of life: tonsillar stones are not treated by the NHS in Scotland. Persistent sore throat and hoarseness need full assessment. For an overview of ENT CANCER RED FLAG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3884,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"class_list":["post-4462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-throat"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/entadult\/throat\/\" rel=\"tag\">Throat<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Most throat symptoms can be assessed and managed in primary care. Tonsillectomy is now only undertaken if there are significant, frequent, documented episodes of tonsillitis, affecting quality of life: tonsillar stones are not treated by the NHS in Scotland. Persistent sore throat and hoarseness need full assessment. For an overview of ENT CANCER RED FLAG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25903,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4462\/revisions\/25903"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}