Summary
More than 30,000 people were infected from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions provided by the NHS. It is estimated that more than 3,000 deaths are attributable to infected blood, products and tissue. This report sets out the findings of a five-year investigation by the Infected Blood Inquiry. The principal infections considered by the Inquiry are Hepatitis (B and C) and HIV. The transmission of vCJD is also considered.
Update 9 July 2025: The Chair of the Inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, has published the Additional Report on Compensation. You can read the Report here.
Content
The report’s principal recommendation is that a compensation scheme should be set up for those impacted by the infected blood scandal. It also makes a range of recommendations on the following subjects:
- Recognising and remembering what happened to people.
- Learning from the Inquiry.
- Preventing future harm to patients: achieving a safety culture.
- Ending the defensive culture in the Civil Service and government.
- Monitoring liver damage for people who were infected with Hepatitis C.
- Patient Safety: Blood transfusions.
- Finding the undiagnosed.
- Protecting the safety of haemophilia care.
- Giving patients a voice.
- Responding to calls for a public inquiry.
- Giving effect to Recommendations of this Inquiry.
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