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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping and agencies

Inquests to be held for patients of jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson

Ian Paterson
Paterson was sentenced to 20 years in jail for carrying out needless surgery on patients who were left traumatised and scarred. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Inquests will be held into the deaths of at least 36 patients – and potentially dozens more – treated by the jailed former breast surgeon Ian Paterson.

As the fallout of one of the most horrific medical scandals in the history of the NHS continues, a pre-inquest review hearing at Birmingham and Solihull coroner’s court on Friday heard that 417 of Paterson’s cases where breast cancer was listed as the immediate cause of death had been examined.

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