Families say infected blood scandal compensation scheme creates ‘penalty for dying’
Charities warn estates of victims who died before the scheme began are losing hundreds of thousands in financial loss payments
Hundreds of victims in infected blood scandal to sue UK health secretary
Group of about 500 people to reinstate 2017 lawsuit against government due to ‘holes and gaps’ in compensation framework
Revealed: Government’s ‘Orwellian’ unit blocked infected blood scandal disclosure
Campaigner whose father died of HIV calls secrecy ‘outrageous’; staff in Michael Gove’s Cabinet Office cited Chilcot Inquiry while delaying Freedom of Information requests
Treloar College: The school killed by contaminated blood - of 122 boys infected only 30 are still alive
Infected blood inquiry has revealed children at Lord Mayor Treloar College between 1970 and 1987 were ‘treated like guinea pigs’
Growing calls for Ken Clarke to be stripped of his peerage over infected blood scandal
Damning final report of the official inquiry into the tragedy accused the Tory grandee of ‘indefensible’ actions and ‘misleading’ the public
They made fatal decisions and shredded evidence. Those behind the contaminated blood scandal must face justice
Ordinary people were wronged, their lives ruined. After today’s devastating report, a reckoning is long overdue, says former Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payoutsJeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts
As the inquiry publishes it final report, the chancellor is under pressure to find £10bn to put right a longstanding injustice
‘They call us the fatherless ones’: the trauma of families devastated by the infected blood scandal will last for generations
One person still dies every three days in the UK after receiving contaminated blood in the 1970s and ‘80s. This global scandal has has devastated many families, including those with haemophilia
‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’: the former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims
Andy Evans was injecting his own clotting protein at three, and was 13 when he found it had given him HIV. Now he campaigns for fellow survivors – and the truth about the contamination scandal
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