england nhs trust, which runs solihull hospital, was severely criticised over its handling of ian patersonlighted poor performance, what it described as weak and indecisive leadership, and a culture of secrecy. sir ian kennedy, who carried out the review in 2013, told the bbc the nhs had many lessons to learn. there is a very significant need for training in leadership amongst senior executives, so that they can take on the powerful, charismatic, charming, apparently highly successful operator, and address, with the right level of moral courage, what's going on. the kennedy review set out the timetable and a series of warnings and failings. in 1996, ian paterson was suspended by a previous employer but in 1998 he was appointed at the heart of england trust. in 2004, an internal report on his conduct was ignored. there were further warnings but it was not until 2011 that he was excluded by the trust, and 642 patients were recalled. the following year he was suspended by the regulator, the general medical council. the review author says there is a clear message for the boards of nhs trusts.

surgeon ian paterson.or some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. one such patient is frances perks, who underwent a series of operations and a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how can somebody do that? and say things that he did, knowing that you didn't need these operations. how can anybody in their right mind, how can they do that to people? ijust find it unbelievable and how he's made us all suffer and people who have lost their lives. how could...? that's pure evil to me. pure evil. during the trial, the jury heard a succession of patients describe a pattern of behaviour. how ian paterson told them that they were at risk of cancer, had precancerous cells and needed to have lumps or entire breasts removed. expert witnesses told the court that the risk was nonexistent or greatly exaggerated and no reasonable surgeon would have acted in the way ian paterson did. this case revolves around ian paterson's work out to private —— ian paterson's work at two private hospitals in the west midlands, al

england nhs trust, which runs solihull hospital, was severely criticised over its handling of ian patersonplaints against him. an official report highlighted poor performance, what it described as weak and indecisive leadership, and a culture of secrecy. sir ian kennedy, who carried out the review in 2013, told the bbc the nhs still had many lessons to learn. there's a very significant need for training in leadership amongst senior executives, so that they can take on the powerful, charismatic, charming, apparently highly successful operator, and address, with the right level of moral courage, what's going on. the kennedy review set out the timetable, and a series of warnings and failings. back in 1996, ian paterson was suspended by a previous employer. but in 1998, he was appointed at the heart of england nhs trust. in 2004, an internal report on his conduct was ignored. there were further warnings, but it was not until 2011 that he was excluded by the trust, and 6112 patients were recalled. the following year, he was suspended by the regulator, the general medical council. the review aut

england nhs trust, which runs solihull hospital, was severely criticised over its handling of ian patersonan official report highlighted poor performance, what it described as weak and indecisive leadership, and a culture of secrecy. sir ian kennedy, who carried out the review in 2013, told the bbc the nhs still had many lessons to learn. there is a very significant need for training in leadership amongst senior executives, so that they can take on the powerful, charismatic, charming, apparently highly successful operator, and address, with the right level of moral courage, what's going on. the kennedy review set out the timetable and a series of warnings and failings. back in 1996, ian paterson was suspended by a previous employer but in 1998 he was appointed at the heart of england nhs trust. in 2004, an internal report on his conduct was ignored. there were further warnings but it was not until 2011 that he was excluded by the trust, and 6112 patients were recalled. the following year he was suspended by the regulator, the general medical council. the review author says there is a clear

breast surgeon ian paterson has been convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts wounding by a jury at nottingham crown court after being accused of carrying out a series of unnecessary operations. dominic hughes reports. surgeon ian patterson, well liked and trusted by patients, facing the frightening prospect of breast cancer but for some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. 0ne some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. one such patient is francis perks, who underwent a series of operations and a mastectomy, all unnecessary. how can somebody do that? and say things that he did knowing that you didn't need these operations? how can anybody in their right mind do that to people? i'd just find it unbelievable. and how he's made us all suffer, people as well who's lost their lives. it's pure evil to me. your evil. during the trial, the jury me. your evil. during the trial, the jury had a succession of patients describe a pattern of behaviour, how ian paterson told them they were at risk of cancer, had precancerous cells are needed to have lumps or enti

surgeon ian paterson.d trusted by patients facing the frightening prospect of breast cancer — but for some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. one such patient is frances perks, who underwent a series of operations and a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how can somebody do that? and say things that he did, knowing that you didn't need these operations. how can anybody in their right mind, how can they do that to people? ijust find it unbelievable and how he's made us all suffer and people who have lost their lives. how could...? that's pure evil to me. pure evil. during the trial, the jury heard a succession of patients describe a pattern of behaviour. how ian paterson told them that they were at risk of cancer, had precancerous cells and needed to have lumps or entire breasts removed. expert witnesses told the court that the risk was nonexistent or greatly exaggerated and no reasonable surgeon would have acted in the way ian paterson did. this case revolved around ian paterson's work at two pr

ian paterson was convicted yesterday of carrying out needless operations.e, hours after washington called for a tougher international approach towards the communist state. according to south korean and american officials, the missile exploded shortly after lift—off. also coming up in the programme: click investigates a company claiming to offer "absolute security" and discovers all is not what it seems. bank holiday weekend. what's it going to be like? mixed, i imagine. good morning. the weather is behaving fairly well today but many of us are fine and dry. things will be turning a little bit warmer through the bank holiday weekend. quite breezy, but there is a chance that some of us will see rain, especially during sunday and into monday. certainly not all of us. front is approaching from the. before it gets there, high pressure dominating the weather for many of us. dominating the weather for many of us. a cloudy day, but the cloud should be in and break up and looking dry almost across. a few showers dotted around through the morning. at 9am plenty of su

herfamily had private health insurance, so she was immediately referred to ian paterson. scary, but it was big enough to warrant coming out and he suggested that we get it out. months later, she found another lump in her right breast and again paterson told her it was best to have it removed. she said she believed every word he said. very charismatic, very friendly, made you feel really at ease and everything he said was said with such, kind of, justification that you felt like that, well, yes, obviously because mr paterson is saying it, so obviously that's what's going to happen. over a four—year period, the surgeon operated on herfour times after lumps kept reoccurring. but in 2011, doctors told her three out of those four operations had been unnecessary. she was devastated. it's anger, it's sad, it's shock that you can't believe that a man of his kind of calibre had put somebody through something like that so unnecessarily. now that paterson's been found guilty of carrying out unnecessary operations on several other patients, jade hopes she can close this chapter of he

ian paterson has been told he'll face prison when he's sentenced next month. clemison, bbc news. european union leaders are meeting in brussels today to formally agree their negotiating stance for brexit. president of the european council, donald tusk, has said the eu won't discuss its future relationship with the uk until it's happy that enough progress has been made on settling past issues. those include a so—called divorce settlement. that's the monique the eu believes it will be owed by the uk. —— money. and we'll be live with all the latest reaction from brussels in around 10 minutes. theresa may will campaign in scotland today for the first time since calling the general election. the conservatives currently hold one scottish seat at westminster but opinion polls suggest support for the party in scotland is growing. meanwhile, jeremy corbyn will urge young people to claim their future by voting labour in the election when he speaks in east london later. he will highlight figures that show 2.4 million young voters are missing from the electoral register.

ian paterson has been told he'll face prison when he's sentenced next month.n, bbc news. we will be speaking to one of the lawyers dealing with those victims injust over lawyers dealing with those victims in just over five minutes about the case. european union leaders are meeting in brussels today to formally agree their negotiating stance for brexit. it is expected the eu will insist the uk must arrange a divorce bill before agreeing any future deals. but how will this play out? we already know the areas the eu wants to sort out swiftly. they also say an agreement on the future uk—eu relationship "can only be concluded once the uk has become a third country" — in other words, once it has officially left the eu. chris morrisjoins us. i hope chris morris joins us. i hope you can make some sense of this. there is an awful lot to go through. essentially, today is about finalising the guidelines with which the other 27 countries will negotiate with us. they have to be turned into a legal document for the negotiating team. one thing that is striking is that for no

ian paterson has been told he'll face prison when he's sentenced next month. with me is emma doughty, clinical negligence solicitor at the firm slater and gordon. they are representing some of the women affected. thank you for talking to us this morning. what sort of people are you representing? we are representing previous patients admitted paterson who have been treated in the nhs and in the arrive at hospital. i'm guessing the private ones have been settled, largely. largely, yes. people hearing about this today will say this is so astonishing a failure by the authorities in some way and the behaviour of mr paterson extraordinary itself will stop where do you think the failings really like? i think the failings are within the management system in the private sector and the nhs. i think what is most concerning, inc having seen what i have seen, how unregulated the private sector is. i do not think people realise that people that was not seem to be the appropriate checks in place. what struck me was that he seemed to work alone. he's come up with diagnosis an

shirley maroney‘s sister, marie, was one of ian paterson's nhs patients.on originally carried out an incomplete mastectomy, instead of the double mastectomy she'd asked for. she then had a further double mastectomy, which delayed her chemotherapy. my sister was a police officerfor 30 years, she believed in the justice system and she believed in fairness, and quite frankly this wasn't fair, this wasn'tjust what happened to her. marie died in 2008 of secondary cancer in her lungs. it's impossible to know the extent to which ian paterson's failures contributed to her death. the criminal case centred on the treatment of nine other women and one man, but solicitors say there are hundreds of patients now looking for compensation. ian paterson has been told he'll face prison when he's sentenced next month. simon clemison, bbc news. european union leaders are meeting in brussels today to formally agree their negotiating stance for brexit. it is expected the eu will insist the uk must arrange a divorce bill before agreeing any future deals. 0ur europe correspondent

concerns had first been raised about ian paterson more than 20 years ago.tinue operating for so long.

how do you think ian paterson was able to get away with what he was doing for as long as he did?ere was a culture where no one would challenge a surgeon, surgeons are strong personalities by definition but that culture has changed dramatically. and we would expect surgeons to work in teams together and take joint responsibility for the outcomes of all patients. give us an idea of what sort of oversight there should be of the activity of a surgeon? what sort of oversight there should be of the activity of a surgeon7m practice we expect surgeons to work in teams, we expect team members to be aware of the outcomes of their collea g u es be aware of the outcomes of their colleagues and patients and every surgeon has an annual appraisal at which they have to produce their results for the medical director and there is generally more scrutiny of outcomes in hospitals, in general. you mention that surgeons by nature are you mention that surgeons by nature a re pretty you mention that surgeons by nature are pretty confident individuals, strong personalities. do you think that other member

we will start with this case regarding the breast surgeon ian paterson. reporting it. i'd had the nhs go to stop the butcher surgeon? you could have me as many as 1000 women. there was a man who was one of the patients in this case in nottingham. it is a staggering story when you think that doctors, we are told, are taught to do no harm. of course, they should seek to do no harm, but surgery often involves doing what would otherwise be sold, or even grievous bodily harm in order to do betterfor the patient on the table in front of you. if a body of your fellow surgeons thinks that what you do is write, or is at leastjustifiable, then there is emerging of terror that allows people to continue to do what they do. it is very difficult actually in law to prove that someone actually in law to prove that someone did something notjust wrong, but to the criminal standard where they are qualified as a doctor and they are conducting an operation ona and they are conducting an operation on a cable and i think that is why, especially with someone who has a forceful p

would like to offer its sympathy to all those patients who have been harmed by the actions of ian patersonry body, however, 80% of practising breast surgeons in the uk are members of the association of breast surgery. but not mr paterson? no, he was not a member. what have you made of the details? many of these cases we re of the details? many of these cases were historical cases, and clearly, the public are going to be very anxious, especially people presenting with breast problems. but the association would like to assure all patients who go to a clinic with all patients who go to a clinic with a breast complaint that they are looked after and notjust by a co nsulta nt looked after and notjust by a consultant surgeon, but their care is managed by a multidisciplinary team, and that team consists of pathologists, radiologists, breast ca re nurses, pathologists, radiologists, breast care nurses, oncologists and the breast care surgeon, and decision making is a multidisciplinary approach. yes, that should be the approach, but yet ian paterson was able to act more or less alone, from what one

ian paterson denies 20 counts of wrong—doing. paterson denies 20 counts of wrong-doing. thank you. court in relation to an attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south london. reker ahmed, a kurdish—iranian boy, was chased and subjected to a "brutal attack" in croydon on friday night. a total of 13, all aged between 15 and 24, have been charged with violent disorder. the computer scientist who invented the worldwide web has marked the receipt of a prestigious award by condemning official attempts to increase surveillance of the net. sir tim berners lee said it was human right to communicate without governments snooping on individuals. he also described any plan to undermine or break encryption walls, as a "bad idea". ken livingstone's future in the labour party will be decided in the next few hours. the former mayor of london will find out whether he's to be expelled after claiming that hitler supported zionism in the 1930's. he's been attending a labour party disciplinary hearing and our political correspondent, alex forsyth, is there for us now. alex, fill us in on the background t

surgeon ian paterson, described as charismatic and charming, but who lied to his patients in order tothem on the operating table, pretending they were at risk of cancer when they were not. today some of his victims, who thought the surgeon was saving their lives, showed their relief after the jury at nottingham crown court found paterson guilty of 17 counts of deliberately harming patients. i've been left physically damaged, ifeel like i've been mutilated. all this was for nothing. all the scars i thought were there because they were a badge of honour are now because he's mutilated me. and, you know, i've been through this for nothing. paterson was also found guilty of three counts of unlawful wounding, but why he did it remains a mystery. so you're convinced, are you, that this was him trying to play god, in a way, with patients‘ lives? well, that's the way that some of the patients have described his actions. as i say, i really don't know what his true motivation was. certainly financial motivation is something that's featured during the investigation and the trial. but, unless he t

concerns were first raised about ian paterson more than 20 years ago — we'll be asking how he was able

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ian paterson was found guilty of 20 counts of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding. in around ten minutes‘ time, newswatch with samira ahmed. but first on bbc news, click. over the last few years, billions of e—mail accounts have been hacked. has yours? last year, yahoo announced that over 1.5 billion e—mail accounts were compromised between 2013 and 2014, the largest breach in history. then it emerged that russian hackers had gained access to 60,000 e—mails from hillary clinton's presidential campaign. some believe the resulting leaks helped swing the election for trump. and what it certainly did reveal is something most of us already knew. we send, each of us, all the time, hugely personal information around the internet. information that we'd like to keep private, but others are all too often able to see. so how about something that guarantees to protect all of those e—mails? sounds like something you wanna have, doesn't it? well, this is nomx, a box which promises to secure your e—mails 100%. it was at ces that we came across this device as it was introduced to t

solicitors representing patients of breast surgeon ian paterson say many more women will seek compensationlt of having needless operations. next on bbc news: it is time for the travel show. this week, celebrating gha na's 60th birthday. i'm drinking to the country's independence. sparring with the locals. boxing is massive, they love it here. and meeting some of its cutest residents. i am amazed how much banana a little monkey like that can eat. busy, bustly, noisy and lots of fun. i could be in any of the big, lively west african capitals, but i've come to one country that is celebrating a very special anniversary. news reel: the name gold coast passes, long live ghana. 60 years ago in 1957, the british gold coast broke away from centuries of colonial rule. it became the republic of ghana. it was a peaceful transition, and ghana's independence, the first to be declared in sub—saharan africa, inspired other states to do the same thing. today, it's seen as a largely peaceful entry point into this part of the continent. the civil strife and terrorism that affects some of its neighbours aren'

we will bring you more background on breast surging ian paterson, who has been convicted of carrying out a number of unnecessary operations causing harm to his patients. and we find out what on the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers. up and we are going to go live to our correspondent who is in new york, waiting for ours, for donald trump to speak to the national rifle association in atlanta. they were very big supporters of his, so he has some thank you is to save. yeah, absolutely. they contributed $30 million to his campaign, they were one of the conservatives groups that very early on supported him and put out a pack add—on hillary clinton stopped and they saw that this was the starkest difference of candidates on the second amendment, the rest —— american right to bear arms that they ever seen according to the nra. president trump i had up as 100 days is trying to rally his base. we haven't seen a president addressed the nra says ronald reagan at their convention at least, so this is going to be quite a big deal. quite a lot of trump balls critics are worried that he will be b

ian paterson was found guilty of intentionally wounding his patients at two private hospitals in the and asked her how mr paterson was able to commit crimes. i think it is clear that the failings are within the management system both within the nhs and the private sector. i think what is most concerning, having seen what i have seen, is how unregulated the private sector is. i do not think people realise that actually, there does not seem to be the appropriate checks and balances in place. one thing that struck me on reading through what has happened was that he seemed to work alone, he came up with diagnoses, which were bogus in many cases and carried on and operated alone, it must —— but the been other people around, surely? cull certainly, but that is not seem to be any evidence that he involved any other people in the care of these patients. but i think it must have been the case that he surrounded himself with his people of choice, i suppose. you have obviously dealt with a lot of women who have been affected. do you get any clue of what a man was really doing, what was behind i

concerns had first been raised about ian paterson more than 20 years ago — we'll be asking how he wasaid in north—west london. also: the man detained while carrying knives in whitehall

the healdines: the breast surgeon, ian paterson, is facing a long prison sentence after being convictedr paterson hasn't shown any remorse for the terrible things he's done and he's really damaged the trust people had in the health service and some of our health professionals. scotland yard believe they foiled an active terrorist plot when they raided a house in north west london yesterday. a woman was shot and six other people were arrested. new figures out today show that britain's economic growth has slowed sharply —— the economy expanded byjust 0.3% in the first three months of the year. the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, tells a un security council meeting that all options for responding to further provocation from north korea remain on the table. president trump has assured the national rifle association, one of his biggest backers, that they would not be treated as a persecuted minority in his speech he is making at their convention in atlanta. you have a true friend and captain in the white house. no longer whether federal agencies be coming after law—abiding gun owners.