Seriously ill children put at risk by firm’s failure to deliver NHS medication

Finley Smith, a four-year-old boy with severe haemophilia A, with his mother, Charlotte Smith, and father, Richard Smith, at a wedding. Photograph: Family Handout

Children with serious health conditions are getting sicker as a result of persistent failings by Sciensus, a private company paid millions by the NHS to deliver essential medication, the Guardian can reveal.

Parents of sick children say they are repeatedly let down by botched, delayed or missed deliveries, while NHS paediatric clinicians warn some are suffering avoidable harm as a result.