Contaminated blood inquiry

Hundreds of files relating to contaminated blood were removed by Government officials and went missing, it has emerged. A Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) investigation conducted last year following the start of the Infected Blood Inquiry found around 950 files relating to blood policy had been "checked out" by staff going back years. The GIAA report has been released under Freedom of Information laws to campaigner Jason Evans, whose father died in 1993 having contracted hepatitis and HIV.The 29-year-old, who is suing the Government for negligence, said the removal of documents "probably goes back decades" and could form part of a Government cover-up.The contaminated blood scandal has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.Carol Grayson, who is originally from Hartlepool and has also lived in East Durham, has spent decades campaigning over the scandal after her haemophiliac husband Peter died at the age of 47 in 2005 after contracting … [Read more...] about Infected blood inquiry hears that hundreds of files went missing after being removed by Government officials

Hundreds of files relating to contaminated blood were removed by Government officials and went missing, it has emerged. A Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) investigation conducted last year following the start of the Infected Blood Inquiry found around 950 files relating to blood policy had been "checked out" by staff going back years. The GIAA report has been released under Freedom of Information laws to campaigner Jason Evans, whose father died in 1993 having contracted hepatitis and HIV.The 29-year-old, who is suing the Government for negligence, said the removal of documents "probably goes back decades" and could form part of a Government cover-up.The contaminated blood scandal has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.Carol Grayson, who is originally from Hartlepool and has also lived in East Durham, has spent decades campaigning over the scandal after her haemophiliac husband Peter died at the age of 47 in 2005 after contracting … [Read more...] about Infected blood inquiry hears that hundreds of went missing after being removed by Government officials

0 Have your say Scottish Cabinet ministers were told the UK Department of Health was investigating a claim of knowingly supplying contaminated blood, newly released files from 2003 show. Official documents show Scotland’s then health minister Malcolm Chisholm telling the Cabinet of the Scottish Executive at a meeting in October 2003 there were two current issues relating to the contaminated blood scandal – recommendations for compensations levels and the claim the contaminated blood and knowingly been supplied.Thousands of people across the UK in the 1970s and 1980s were given blood products infected with hepatitis viruses and HIV. The first UK-wide inquiry into the public health disaster heard in 2018 it is estimated more than 25,000 could have been affected.The UK government imported blood clotting factor from the US, where much of the plasma used came from donors such as prison inmates and was not properly screened, which was then given to … [Read more...] about Scottish ministers were told of contaminated blood claim in 2003