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A damning report into the infected blood scandal concluded that successive governments and the NHS covered up the truth while documents were deliberately destroyed

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.

More than 30,000 were infected with HIV and hepatitis C while receiving NHS care between the 1970s and 1990s, in a scandal described as a 'calamity'.

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.

Infected Blood Inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff criticised a litany of failures by successive governments in responding to the scandal.

Infected Blood Inquiry: where thousands of people were inadvertently exposed to hepatitis and HIV through tainted blood. Latest news cause, authorities response...

More than 3,000 UK patients died and many continue to suffer after tens of thousands of vulnerable patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis.

More than 30,000 people are thought to have been infected with potentially deadly infections from contaminated blood products from 1970 to 1991.

Groups representing victims say trust in government can no longer be taken for granted after report finds evidence of cover-up

The Infected Blood Inquiry found that over 30,000 people were infected from 1970 to 1991 via blood and blood products infected by HIV and hepatitis and that successive governments and medical professionals attempted to cover it up. Over 3,000 people have died as a result of the scandal with numbers set to rise. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to apologise and announce $12 billion in compensation