The report was commissioned after parents complained that their children had died in agony after being treated at the London hospital PRESS ASSOCIATION ARCHIVEA damning report into the deaths of children in cancer care was covered up by health service chiefs, according to accusations by doctors including the former NHS medical director for London. The 2015 report was commissioned after parents complained that their children had died “in agony” after being treated at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. In particular a coroner had deemed that there were “astonishing” failures in the care of Alice Mason, a two-year-old who died in 2011. The report found that to get the care they needed, children were repeatedly transferred between hospitals. In a separate investigation by the Health Service Journal, in one year 22 children were transferred 31 times for intensive care, with some moved three times.

Source: The Times June 19, 2019 22:52 UTC