Infected blood scandal

Those in charge knew the risks meaning patients caught HIV and hepatitis from blood treatments, report finds.

It is widely regarded as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.

More than 30000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the infected blood scandal - and 3000 have since died.

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

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 ...

Over 3,000 people have died after receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Professor Emma Cave, of Durham Law School, and Professor ...

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 ...

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

The prime minister offers a "wholehearted and unequivocal" apology after the final report from the inquiry is published, promising the government will pay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More than 30,000 Britons were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.

'We must make sure nothing like this happens again', Rishi Sunak exclaimed. Except it will.

Victims and others affected by the infected blood scandal are waiting to hear how much they will be paid.

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

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

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 ...

Ireland's blood scandals have caused human suffering and cost the State around €800m in compensation so far.

Northern Ireland victims of the infected blood scandal are set to receive compensation through a UK government scheme following the publication of a damning ...

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 ...

There must be “justice and accountability” for any “wrongdoing” when it comes to the infected blood scandal, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has said.

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