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Prime minister says successive governments failed and vows to pay whatever it takes to compensate victims

Key people and groups involved in perpetuating and covering up the public health disaster, and those who brought it to light

A decades-long UK scandal in which thousands of people died after being treated with infected blood was covered up and largely could have been avoided, according to a bombshell report published Monday.

After years of neglect, countless missed opportunities and a tireless campaign for justice, the infected blood inquiry has published its report. It is excoriating, with inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff stating that the disaster “was not an accident,” instead saying it happened “because those in authority, doctors, the blood services…

Watch as infected blood scandal campaigners reacted to an inquiry’s findings that politicians, doctors, and civil servants were involved in a chilling cover-up of the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.

‘Decades-long moral failure at the heart of our national life,’ says prime minister Rishi Sunak

Children were used as “objects for research” while the risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored at a specialist school where boys…

Scandal was completely avoidable, with government and NHS colluding to cover up risk to patients

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