May said responsibility for the decision to charge Thompson ahead of treatment lay with the Royal Marsden hospital. “The decision on whether his treatment is urgent or immediately necessary must rightly be made by the clinicians treating him,” May wrote. Thompson’s lawyer Jeremy Bloom, at Duncan Lewis, said: “The application that Mr Thompson needs to make to regularise his stay is complex and requires a great deal of supporting evidence. Meanwhile, Mr Thompson is being refused potentially life-saving treatment unless he can pay for it. This is a trust which is making hundreds of millions from private patients, yet seemingly refusing to provide urgent cancer care,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2018 16:55 UTC