Scandal articles
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What is the UK’s infected blood scandal?
More than 3,000 people died and many others were left with lifelong health problems after being given contaminated blood The infected blood inquiry is due to conclude almost seven years after it was first announced.But what is the infected blood scandal? Continue reading
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The children of the contaminated blood scandal – podcast
It is the NHS’s worst treatment disaster – with 30,000 patients infected. Two survivors, Ade Goodyear and Andy Evans, explain why it took so long for it to be brought to lightAde Goodyear was 15 when he was told he had contracted HIV. Like about 30,000 other NHS patients – including more than 300 children – who were given blood transfusions or commercial blood products before 2019, he was infected by contaminated blood. Some patients got HIV and hepatitis C from blood transfusions after...
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PM apologises after infected blood scandal cover-up
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is truly sorry for the failures over the infected blood scandal, calling it a decades-long moral failure. He was responding to the public inquiry’s report into the scandal, which has seen 30,000 people infected from contaminated blood treatments. It found authorities covered up the scandal and exposed victims to unacceptable risks. […]