Staff at private hospital 'tried to hurry up my goodbye to dad'

Grieving son 'given just minutes at 2am'

- BEN GRIFFITHS

THE young son of a man who died due to blunders by a private hospital says staff gave him just minutes for a last goodbye as they had already called the undertakers.

Orson Morris was just 12 years old when father Phil, 48, died in December 2021 after gastric sleeve surgery.

Staff called Phil's wife Dana at 2am to tell her, giving her a one-hour window to see him before his body was taken away.

Dana woke Orson to tell him before they scrambled to St Anthony's Hospital, owned by private health provider Spire.

Orson, now 14, who had permission from his mum to speak to the Mirror, said: "I will never forgive them for the way they treated my dad in their care, and ruined my final goodbye with him.

"I'll never get that back and that hurts so much.