‘Significantly more people’ are set to receive compensation following changes to the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
All new patients registering at GP practices will be asked if they had a blood transfusion before 1996, as part of an NHS drive to find undiagnosed patients affected by the contaminated blood scandal.
Compensation for the infected blood scandal has been widened to include all eligible victims under completed Government legislation.
Concerns have been raised over delays to compensation paid to families of victims of the infected blood scandal.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard have apologised to victims of the infected blood scandal.
The final report from the long-running inquiry into the infected blood scandal has found evidence of a ‘subtle, pervasive and chilling' cover-up.
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