NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter

Richard Harris had to wait weeks to be seen despite complaining of ‘red-hot poker pain’. Photograph: Jimmy Edmonds

A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of potentially fatal delays to treat a tumour, in a case that is being investigated by police as possible corporate manslaughter.

Richard Harris, 71, died last July after a series of errors in the neurosurgery department at the Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton, which is part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust (UHSussex).