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The UK did not import whole blood [12] from abroad, but it did import large quantities of factor VIII given to those infected, as described in the documentary Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal. The UK imported these products because it did not produce enough of its own, and efforts to achieve self-sufficiency were inadequately funded.
People were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s. Timeline of events leading up to the Infected Blood Inquiry Skip to ...
The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from ...
The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/872) is a statutory instrument (SI) that was laid before Parliament on 23 August 2024 to make provision for a compensation payment scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal as stipulated in the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024. [1] [2]
Inquiry chair Brian Langstaff said more than 30,000 people received infected blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s from Britain's state-funded National Health Service, destroying lives ...
A and Others v National Blood Authority and Another, also known as the Hepatitis C Litigation, [3] was a landmark product liability case of 2001 primarily concerning blood transfusions [1] but also blood products or transplanted organs, [4] all of which were infected with hepatitis C, where liability was established under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the Product Liability Directive (85 ...
British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth ...
Over two days, 20-21 October 2020, Professor Lee gave evidence in person to the Infected Blood Inquiry. [4] [5] On the second day of her evidence, whilst addressing questions about an Oral History Transcript (THOM0000001), [6] [7] Lee told the inquiry that what she did not "like about the idea of compensation", was that "it suggests liability", but went on to qualify that she believed those ...