She said: “If I sued, I would be taking away yet more money from the NHS, so making it more likely that a future patient would endure a similar ordeal.

“This is the point Corbyn and Labour don’t get.

“They say they are socialists, yet they’re doing nothing about a system which treats the NHS as if it were a manufacturer making faulty products, instead of a provider of a vital social good.”

She said: “I may be the first parliamentary candidate forced to lie down, rather than stand, for office.

“But I’m determined to do something useful with what’s left of my life.

“I’m taking on Corbyn in his political comfort zone. He talks about shaping the future. As things stand, the future for the NHS is to vanish up its own backside because of the money going on lawyers and damages.”