Oxford hospital trust faced defamation threat from NHS

Cancer care centre at the Churchill hospital, Oxford.Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PANHS heads threatened to sue one of England’s most admired hospitals for libel, for raising concerns that privatising a key element of cancer treatment would endanger patients’ health. In an extraordinary move NHS England tried to stop Oxford University hospitals (OUH) NHS trust opposing its controversial decision to let a private firm take charge of cancer scanning. Lawyers for NHS England said the tr