Man plans to sue NHS after cancer surgery delayed due to coronavirus - The Guardian

A former senior NHS official plans to sue the organisation after he had to pay a private hospital £20,000 for potentially life-saving cancer surgery because NHS care was suspended due to Covid-19.

He worked for the NHS for 17 years as a manager in hospitals in London, Birmingham and Redditch, Worcestershire, and was the chief executive of an NHS primary care trust in Leicester.”.

Not everyone has that advantage and it is those patients who will fall through the cracks, and lives will be lost,” she added.Rachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association, said McMahon’s case raised questions about the NHS’s £400m-a-month deal with private hospitals.

And it ensured that patients with the most urgent need, including those with cancer, were treated at a different site or local private hospital, he added