The NHS and the Government took part in a “chilling” cover-up of the infected blood scandal that has claimed more than 3,000 lives, a public inquiry has concluded.

Sir Brian Langstaff, who chaired the five-year inquiry into the NHS’s worst treatment disaster, said doctors, civil servants and ministers had “closed ranks” to hide the truth for decades. He said the “horrifying” scandal could and should have been avoided, but a “catalogue of failures” led to “calamity”.

The tragedy happened because medics and successive governments “did not put patient safety first”. When the scandal was exposed, “the response of those in authority served to compound people’s suffering”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nhs-government-led-chilling-cover-113005325.html

AND

The school killed by contaminated blood: Of 122 boys infected only 30 are still alive

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/school-killed-contaminated-blood-122-104446741.html

AND

Britain’s ‘day of shame’ as full scale of infected blood scandal revealed

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/20/infected-blood-scandal-inquiry-live-latest/

A plan for compensation will be announced on Tuesday and is expected to top £10 billion.

The final report of a five-year inquiry into the scandal, which has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives, concluded that the health service and governments took part in a “chilling” cover-up, as they “closed ranks” to hide the truth, even destroying documents to keep patients in the dark.