Family of boy with cerebral palsy denied life-changing operation by NHS cuts to take legal action

Ben Baddeley's mother Amy says she believed another child had the 20,000 surgery just days after her nine-year-old sons was suddenly cancelled

The furious family of cerebral palsy boy Ben Baddeley is to take legal action against the hospital that axed his life-changing operation due to cuts.

Mum Amy said she believed another child had the 20,000 surgery just days after her nine-year-old sons was suddenly cancelled.

The 29-year-old said: I was so angry when I found out they were operating on other children on the waiting list, but not on Ben.

It is just so wrong to choose one over another. It is playing at God.

"I am going to see my solicitor about taking legal action.

I do not believe you can give a child a date for an operation, take it away, then continue to do it for other children.

"I dont think it is lawful.

Ben, of Silverdale, Staffs, was booked into Queens Medical Centre , Nottingham, on February 20 to prepare for selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery, which could help him walk unaided.

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