The Government is not trying to kick compensation payments for victims impacted by the infected blood scandal into the “long grass”, the Paymaster General has said. Jeremy Quin (pictured) told
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The Government must stop delaying and give interim compensation to survivors of the infected blood scandal and their families as soon as possible, ministers have been told. MPs across the
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Victims of the infected blood scandal have said the extension of their compensation scheme is a “light at the end of the tunnel” after living through a “horror film” for
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A campaigner whose father died as a result of infected blood has claimed he only found out that survivors and bereaved partners will receive interim Government compensation payments through media
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A haemophiliac and campaigner has said he feels “horror” thinking he may have passed on hepatitis unwittingly after being turned “into potentially a vehicle that could cause death to a
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has not pledged any long term commitment for HIV payment contributions in Scotland past the current financial year, an inquiry has heard.
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Contaminated blood victims have shared their “guilt” at giving blood for a number of years before finding out they had contracted hepatitis C, an inquiry has heard. The public inquiry
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Department of Health officials ignored people falling ill with hepatitis in the early 1970s, allowing the contaminated blood scandal to continue for years, new documents reveal. The minutes of a
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Witnesses who have been “infected and affected” by the contaminated scandal have shown “impressive dignity, courage and resilience”, the inquiry chair has said. At the conclusion of the two-week hearing
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“Lost or destroyed” hospital records of a patient believed to have been infected with hepatitis C during an operation prevented him from receiving compensation, an inquiry has heard. A groin
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