The family of a suspected liver cancer sufferer have poured scorn on Prime Minister Boris Johnson ’s promise that hospitals will treat urgent cases.
Doctors have told teacher Dan Gough they are certain he has a malignant tumour on his bile duct - and warned an operation is the only cure.
But instead of surgery he is having weekly blood tests to monitor the spread of his disease as treatment at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool is ‘on hold’.
Hospital leaders have warned the NHS faces a backlog that could take five years to clear as vulnerable patients are “collateral damage” of the NHS shutdown.