Lee Williams found out his 15-year-old son might be facing months of HIV and hepatitis testing not from the hospital that treated him, but from a stranger dressed in medical scrubs who knocked on their front door. The visitor was a whistleblower, and the letter they delivered would force a Welsh NHS health board to confront a sterilisation failure it had known about for nearly three weeks.
Ieuan Williams, who had braces fitted at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport on 25 February, was not informed of any risk until 19 March — despite the hospital's management discovering the sterilisation failure just two days after the procedure, on 27 February. His father, Lee, did not hold back: 'They knew about this weeks ago and they tried to cover it up.'
