Rogue breast surgeon who was jailed for 20 years after conducting unnecessary operations on more than 1,000 patients 'will be stripped of his £1million pension'

A disgraced breast surgeon is set to be stripped of his £1 million pension pot after he conducted unnecessary operations on more than 1,000 patients. According to The Sunday Times, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has decided to remove Paterson's taxpayer-funded pension under rules that allow NHS benefits to be forfeited in the case of criminal, negligent or fraudulent acts. Ian Paterson is currently serving 20 years in prison after being found to have carried out unnecessary procedures on more than 1,000 patients over a period of some 14 years Paterson was employed by the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and practised in the independent sector at Spire Parkway and Spire Little Aston in Birmingham Health Secretary Wes Streeting has decided to remove Paterson's taxpayer-funded pension under rules that allow NHS benefits to be forfeited in the case of criminal, negligent or fraudulent acts Paterson was employed by the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and practised in the independent sector at Spire Parkway and Spire Little Aston in Birmingham. Paterson was jailed in 2017 after being convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding relating to unnecessary operations performed on 10 patients between 1997 and 2011 In at least 100 cases of the 300 discovered since 2021, patients were having treatment for conditions other than breast surgery, such as the removal of their gallbladder or appendix Debbie Douglas, 65, who was subjected to numerous unnecessary operations by Paterson, told The Sunday Times: ‘I’m delighted he has had his pension taken away because all those years he worked for the NHS harming people, he was committing criminal acts.