The Infected Blood Inquiry chairman has urged the government to give compensation to victims after a probe concluded that politicians, doctors, and civil servants were involved in a chilling cover-up of the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.Source: PA
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00:00Can you tell us what the main findings of the inquiry are?
00:04Well, let me put it into context. What I've been looking at are people from families across
00:09the UK who've gone into hospital for treatment, and over 30,000 have come out with infections
00:16which were life-shattering. And 33,000 of those have died, and deaths keep on happening
00:25week by week. What I've found is that that disaster was no accident. People put their
00:33trust in doctors and the government to keep them safe, and that trust was betrayed. And
00:41then the government compounded the agony by telling them that nothing wrong had been done,
00:48that they'd had the best available treatment, and that as soon as tests were available,
00:54they were introduced. And both of those statements were untrue. That's why what I'm recommending
01:02is that compensation must be paid now, and I've made various other recommendations to
01:09help to make the future of the NHS better and treatment safer.