Blood: Contamination

(asked on 14th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when compensation will be made available for those individuals infected by contaminated bloods.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 17th December 2015

As liability has not been established in the majority of cases, therefore it would not be appropriate to talk about payments in terms of compensation. Where liability has been established in a small number of individuals affected by HIV, hepatitis C or both infections through treatment with NHS-supplied blood or blood products before 1991, compensation has been paid. A consultation on proposals to reform the current payments schemes will be published in January 2016.

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