Woman left infertile after NHS failed to detect cancer for four years awarded £580k to cover surrogacy costs

Woman left infertile after NHS failed to detect cancer for four years awarded £580k to cover surrogacy costs A young woman left infertile because her cervical cancer was not spotted for more than four years has been awarded the costs of having surrogate children in America by the Court of Appeal.

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust admitted negligence in failing to detect signs of cancer, leading to the woman, known only as XX, developing highly invasive cancer requiring chemo-radiotherapy treatment, which left her infertile at the age of 29.

The High Court awarded XX a total of £580,000 in damages last year, including the costs of fertility treatment, cryopreserving her eggs and having children by surrogacy in the UK. The Daily Telegraph