MORE than £860,000 has been given in compensation payments to North-east patients who had their cancer misdiagnosed or for delays diagnosing the disease.

Figures released by NHS Grampian under the Freedom of Information Act show £860,747 has been given to less than five patients in the last three years.

Reported by the Evening Express. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.