Infected blood scandal victims to get compensation payments before end of year
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6MYYJ)
Minister lays out details day after damning report found NHS and government culpable for scandal
An estimated multibillion pound scheme to compensate UK victims of the contaminated blood scandal and their families by the end of the year has been announced, the day after a damning report found the NHS and government to be culpable for the tragedy.
The chair of the infected blood inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, called last year for a compensation framework to be set up for those infected and affected by the scandal and in Tuesday's report criticised the government's failure to do so.
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