Parveen Brown, who is responsible for continuing healthcare funding at NHS Devon, said every family had the right of appeal and a further discussion had taken place with the family.

I.e : You can appeal all you like, we are still going to screw you over.

This sort of treatment of retired servicemen/women is pretty common throughout the world, not just WW2 servicepersonal.
There is no “money” to be made wasting time and effort on “old” people, nor political points to be scored helping one “old man”.

Its a sad fact.
Im not a great believer in war at all, but these people deserve all the help and support we can give them since it is ultimately our fault for allowing wars to develop…

One hopes that the so called public servents who keep “reviewing” peoples cases will one day be an old frail person who also gets screwed over in their old age!