Calls for Brighton hospital to suspend surgeons amid patient deaths inquiry

Police are investigating operations at Royal Sussex County hospital over alleged negligence and cover-ups

A hospital is being urged to suspend surgeons whose operations are being examined by police as part of a widening investigation into alleged medical negligence and cover-ups over dozens of deaths and harm to patients.

Sussex police have yet to confirm the number of cases under investigation in the general surgery and neurosurgery departments at Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton. But since it was launched in June, Operation Bamber has widened to include more recent cases and is now believed to involve alleged mistakes in the treatment of more than 100 patients from 2015 and 2021, including at least 40 who died.