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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.
The event is often called the Tainted Blood Scandal or Contaminated Blood Scandal. [1] It was not in the terms of reference of the inquiry to examine events in England, [2] a statutory public inquiry has never been held in England. [3] The Penrose Inquiry was set up by Scottish Government under the Inquiries Act 2005 and cost £12,123,754. [4]
ITV announced on Thursday that it had given the go-ahead to a drama about the infected blood scandal, after the success of the channel’s series about Post Office workers fighting for justice.
Campaigners have previously pushed for the infected blood scandal to receive the same attention as the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest to afflict Britain's state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948, with around 3,000 people believed to have died as a result of being ...
Being centrally placed, Bloom was one of the key figures in what would become known as the Tainted Blood Scandal, in which a large number of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV, as a result of receiving contaminated blood or contaminated clotting factor products. [8] [9] Some of his actions were highlighted in the Penrose Inquiry. [10]
The report said successive U.K. governments refused to admit wrongdoing and tried to cover up the scandal, in which an estimated 3,000 people died after receiving the contaminated blood or blood ...
[3] [4] The review resulted in the sacking of Sir Colin Walker as the then head of the National Blood Authority, [5] shortly after chief executive John Adey was also fired. [6] Cash gave evidence to the Penrose Inquiry [7] and has been outspoken about Britain's tainted blood scandal in which thousands of haemophiliacs died.