Blood: Contamination
(asked on 20th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to make provisions for counselling for those who contracted HIV and hepatitis C following treatment with NHS-supplied blood products and their families and dependants beyond the 2013-14 financial year.
This question was answered on 27th October 2014
In 2011, the Department set up a dedicated counselling service for people in England who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C infection as a result of treatment with NHS-supplied blood and blood products, and their families. The service has been extended to April 2016.