Infected blood scandal

The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry has been published, six years after it started its work.

More than 30,000 people were infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood between the 1970s and early 1990s, the ...

Thousands of deaths could have been avoided, final report on infection of thousands with HIV or hepatitis C concludes.

Department of Health workers "deliberately" destroyed documents, which amounts to a "pervasive cover-up", says inquiry chair Sir Brian Langstaff.

An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3000 deaths and thousands more ...

Susan Lee was treated with Factor 8 as a child, a drug that was supposed to revolutionise treatment for haemophiliacs. Instead, she discovered she'd been ...

British authorities and the public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood ...

To many who were infected, or whose loved ones were, the report confirms what they already knew.

About 1250 people in Britain were infected with HIV, including about 380 children, an inquiry has found.

Victims included those needing blood transfusions for accidents and in surgery, and those suffering from blood disorders such as haemophilia who were treated ...

After years of campaigning by victims, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said sorry on behalf of the U.K. state for the infected blood scandal, a decades-long failure ...

A nearly six-year inquiry found that the deaths of about 3000 people and the infection of more than 30000 others could have mostly been avoided.

More than 3000 people died and many others were left with lifelong health problems after being given contaminated blood.

The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry has been published, six years after it started its work.

Mr Sunak described it as a "day of shame for the British state". The Infected Blood Inquiry accused doctors, government and the NHS of letting patients catch ...

Minister to set out £10bn scheme after pledge from Rishi Sunak to pay 'whatever it costs'

Rishi Sunak has promised to pay "comprehensive compensation" to people affected by the infected blood scandal. The prime minister said the government would ...

An inquiry has found that British authorities and the public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday apologised to thousands of people infected with contaminated blood in a decades-long scandal that a damning report ...

On May 20, a public enquiry into the scandal found that the government cover-up of the scandal was “more subtle, more pervasive and more chilling in its ...

An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3000 deaths and thousands more ...

More than 30000 people were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s after receiving treatments with contaminated blood ...

The Infected Blood Inquiry accused doctors, government and the NHS of letting patients catch HIV and hepatitis while they were receiving NHS care between the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cabinet Office minister John Glen said he expected final payments for ...

Between 1970 and the early 1990s, more than 30000 NHS patients were given blood transfusions, or treatments which used blood products, contaminated with ...

An estimated multibillion pound scheme to compensate UK victims of the contaminated blood scandal and their families by the end of the year has been ...

An independent inquiry report revealed that due to the negligence of state-funded National Health Service (NHS), thousands were infected with HIV or Hepatitis.

First Minister John Swinney has formally apologised on behalf of the government to everyone who has been infected or affected as a result of infected NHS ...

Victims in Britain have finally gained a measure of justice – elsewhere the fight has had varying outcomes.

Britain's government says thousands of victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year.