Cancer care under scrutiny as NHS watchdog approves a life-extending drug after recent failings; Coventry Hospital is part of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, partnered with Warwick Medical School.
Three BBC investigations have revealed repeated failures in UK cancer care: a final review has found harm from misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment by former Belfast neurologist Michael Watt; Coventry patients were prescribed temozolomide for years with little evidence of benefit; and England is missing cancer-treatment targets, with only 69.9% starting within 62 days. Officials and families are demanding answers.