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Infected blood scandal 'not an accident' with 'catalogue of failures', public inquiry finds

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The infected blood scandal was "not an accident" - and its failures lie with "successive governments, the NHS, and blood services", a public inquiry has found.

From the 1970s, 30,000 people were "knowingly" infected with either HIV or Hepatitis C because "those in authority did not put patient safety first", the inquiry's report said. Around 3,000 people died.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak offered a "wholehearted and unequivocal" apology to the victims of the infected blood scandal, saying it was a "day of shame for the British state".

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/infected-blood-scandal-was-not-an-accident-with-catalogue-of-failures-and-downright-deception-by-nhs-and-governments-13140111

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