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UK infected blood scandal

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK infected blood victims ‘harmed further’ by ministers’ response

    Brian Langstaff says just 460 people have received compensation since damning report last year

    A digital screen displays a poster publicising the fight for justice by those infected by tainted blood
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    UK infected blood victims to receive life-long payments

    Affected individuals could receive more than £2.5mn after public inquiry found ‘chilling’ and ‘pervasive’ cover-up

    Campaigners hold up placards during the public enquiry last July
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The real face of the Deep State

    From the infected blood scandal to the Post Office saga, the dead hand of officialdom is everywhere in the UK

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of blood bags on a tilted scales of justice.
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s long list of challenges

    Starmer’s main hurdle in the next parliament will be whether the party can effectively blame the Tories for future problems

    Sue Gray
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Victims of UK infected blood scandal set to receive up to £2.7mn each in compensation

    Total package for those affected could cost more than £10bn

    Infected blood campaigners meeting in Parliament Square in London
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Explainer
    How does the UK’s infected blood scandal compare with other countries?

    Many nations have already paid compensation and prosecuted individuals involved in decades-old treatment disaster

    UK protester; Canada’s Globe and Mail, This combo shows photos of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) bowing as he apologizes to a group (R) of victims and relatives of people who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood products, at his office in Tokyo
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Sunak apologises for ‘calamity’ of infected blood scandal

    Public inquiry finds British state guilty of ‘chilling’ and ‘pervasive’ cover-up

    Families of victims of the contaminated blood scandal outside Westminster Central Hall after the release of the Langstaff report
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The tainted blood scandal is a failure of the British state

    Suffering and deaths of thousands of victims could have been avoided

    Families affected by the scandal gather in Westminster on Monday
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Explainer
    UK infected blood inquiry: key findings

    Brian Langstaff’s long-awaited report found failures by government departments and various parts of NHS

    Montage of Jackie Britton, who was mistakenly infected with hepatitis C through a blood transfusion following the birth of her daughter in 1983, and a page from Brian Langstaff’s report
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Infected blood inquiry finds ‘chilling’ cover-up of decades-long UK scandal

    Sir Brian Langstaff accuses NHS, ministers and officials of ‘a lack of openness, transparency and candour’

    Sir Brian Langstaff, the judge presiding over the Infected blood inquiry, meets affected families outside Central Hall in Westminster
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    UK government set to pay billions to victims in blood scandal

    Compensation expected to be announced after conclusion of seven-year public inquiry on Monday

    Demonstrators hold placards during the Infected Blood Inquiry in London last July.
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    ‘We are not expendable’: UK infected blood victims await justice

    Final report of public inquiry will seek to bring closure to dark chapter of British medical history next week

    Dena Peacock
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Chancellor urged to compensate infected blood victims in UK Budget

    Nearly 120 MPs want ‘reassurance’ that redress payments will be included in Jeremy Hunt’s statement on March 6

    Demonstrators hold placards relating to the NHS infected blood scandal
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    UK government spending
    Government accused of delaying infected blood payouts to make room for tax cuts

    Officials defend decision to wait for report recommendations as campaigners demand ministers speed up compensation payments

    Infected blood victims and supporters protest outside parliament on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Ministers to time UK blood scandal payouts to avoid jeopardising pre-election tax cuts

    Delay of inquiry’s final report means the compensation scheme would not be ‘scored’ in chancellor’s next Budget

    Dame Diana Johnson (third from left), Jason Evans (fourth from left) and Damian Green (right) outside Number 10 Downing Street,
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Contaminated blood bill of up to £10bn heaps pressure on pre-election spending promises

    Tory parliamentary defeat over payouts highlights challenge for Rachel Reeves to meet chancellor’s painful and rigid limits

    Demonstrators hold placards related to the NHS infected blood scandal
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Sunak suffers first Commons defeat in vote over infected blood scandal

    Labour backbencher’s move to accelerate compensation plans leads 23 Tory MPs to vote against the government

    Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The infected blood scandal — and how it was allowed to happen

    Victims still await compensation from a case of shocking government indifference, professional malpractice and commercial greed

    A demonstrator wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘contaminated blood scandal’ — plus ‘They called us cheaper than chimps, thick, useful material, the great unwashed and virgin haemophiliacs’
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Rishi Sunak defends UK’s delay on infected blood scandal compensation

    Prime minister says officials working ‘as quickly as thoroughness allows’ to address ‘tragedy’

  • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
    UK faces bill of up to £10bn to cover blood scandal compensation

    Payout expected to be extended to families of victims who contracted HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated transfusions

    A blood transfusion bag
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Families in UK contaminated blood scandal should be compensated, says judge

    Inquiry chair recommends payment to victims’ families who have ‘so far gone unrecognised’

    Campaigner Anthony Furrugia painted blood red, stands next to a hears as he demonstrates with other campaigners and victims of contaminated blood gather outside the Houses of Parliament in London
  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
    UK blood scandal victims due ‘no less than £100,000 in compensation’

    Scale of NHS treatment disaster implies £400mn bill for those ‘living on borrowed time’

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