Private healthcare firm chased me for cash after hubby died in their care

Widow's trauma after gastric op

- BEN GRIFFITHS

A PRIVATE healthcare firm billed a grieving widow just weeks after her husband died in their care.

Lecturer Phil Morris, 48, died from lack of oxygen four days after having a £12,000 gastric sleeve operation.

Spire the UK's second biggest private health firm started sending monthly bills to the dad of one's widow just three weeks after he died.

Dana, 49, who is suing Spire, said: "Phil was our world. He went into hospital for a treatment that would've changed his life for the better.

"Not only did Spire fail my husband, they had the temerity to try to claw the money back for the treatment, which ultimately led to his death.