Ian Paterson inquiry: more than 1,000 patients had needless operations
Report says hospitals displayed wilful blindness to damaging operations on hundreds of patients
The rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson subjected more than 1,000 patients to unnecessary and damaging operations over 14 years before he was stopped, an independent inquiry has found.
Paterson was free to perform harmful surgery on mainly female patients in NHS and private hospitals because of “a culture of avoidance and denial” in a “dysfunctional” healthcare system where there was “wilful blindness” to his behaviour.