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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Private health firm Sciensus fails to fix defects that led to UK patient’s death

Chemotherapy drips
Sciensus has come in for criticism over its provision of medicines on several occasions. Photograph: Bsip Sa/Alamy

A private health company paid millions by the NHS has failed to fix safety defects that led to the death of a cancer patient, the Guardian can reveal.

Three patients were hospitalised and a fourth died when they were given the wrong doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug after a catastrophic IT failure at the medicine manufacturing unit of Sciensus in April this year.

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