Contaminated blood scandal: compensation plans are at risk, campaigners warn

A campaign group representing people affected by the UK infected blood scandal is calling on its members to lobby their MPs and working peers to save the compensation scheme.Former judge Brian Langstaff published an interim report a year ago calling for a compensation scheme to be set up urgently for people affected by government failings that allowed thousands to be given blood and blood products infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s. The work of the scheme should begin in 2023, he said.1Last December, when the Victims and Prisoners Bill—introduced to deal with victims of crime and prisoner release—was going through the House of Commons, a Labour led amendment requiring the government to set up an independent body to administer infected blood compensation was passed by 246 votes to 242.The new clause required the government to set up the compensation scheme within three months of the…
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