Government makes major changes to infected blood compensation
By: | Published: 2025-07-22 03:43:00 | Source: www.bbc.com
The government has said it is making “substantial changes” to the compensation scheme for thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal.
The announcement was made in Parliament two weeks after a heavily critical report into the payment scheme by the chair of the public inquiry into the disaster.
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said he wanted to restore trust to people who had been “let down too many times”.
Victims’ groups “cautiously welcomed” the announcement but said it was disappointing that some changes were still subject to further consultation.
It is thought 30,000 people were infected with HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C in the 1970s, 80s and early 90s after being given contaminated blood products on the NHS.
The inquiry’s main report into the scandal, published…
