‘It’s about what is right’: mother’s fight for shot at new kidney for autistic son

Amy McLennan tells of horrendous' experience of going up against NHS doctors in transplant battle

For Amy McLennan, it has felt like taking on the full might of the medical establishment - and it was never going well. I thought we were going to lose. Up against the NHS? Of course I did."

Defeat, she said, would have been a death sentence for her 17-year-old son, William Verden.