Widow to sue after husband's gastric op tragedy

A GRIEVING widow is suing a private healthcare firm after her husband died following a £12,000 gastric sleeve operation.

- Imogen Howse

Phillip Morris, 48, was told the procedure would "change his life", but instead he never left the hospital.

The father of one died from a lack of oxygen just days after he underwent the planned surgery in December 2021.

Nightmare

An inquest into lecturer Mr Morris's death last February ruled he "likely would have survived" if a CO2 monitor at St Anthony's Hospital in Worcester Park, Surrey, managed by private firm Spire, had been working properly.

Spire Healthcare said at the time that it accepted the coroner's findings. But Mr Morris's family claim they are still yet to receive any substantial financial compensation from them.

Now wife Dana Morris, 49, alongside son Orson, 15, are suing Spire and its doctors, with a claim alleging "substandard treatment" filed at the High Court.

Mrs Morris said: "It is a year since a coroner ruled that our dear Phillip would have survived had vital steps been taken by their staff.

"Yet still, our nightmare at their hands continues, due to their inability to agree to compensate us for their failings.