Tuesday 17 December 2019

NHS 'should not pay' for US surrogacy after cancer misdiagnosis

NHS 'should not pay' for US surrogacy after cancer misdiagnosis UK supreme court hears case of woman left infertile after cervical cancer treatment

The NHS should not have to pay for patients to have surrogate children through commercial agreements in the US, the supreme court has been told in a controversial medical compensation case.

Whittington hospital NHS trust in north London has admitted negligently failing to detect signs of cervical cancer for more than four years. That oversight led to the woman, identified only as XX, developing highly invasive malignancy, which required chemo-radiotherapy treatment and left her infertile at the age of 29. The Guardian

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