The Latest Breaking News on ‘Bloody cover up’: what the papers say as Sunak apologises for infected blood scandal

More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis via blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s

Prime Minister promises ‘comprehensive compensation’ following ‘terrible injustice’ spanning decades

LABOUR and the Conservatives look set to work together to deliver “comprehensive compensation” to the victims of the biggest treatment disaster…

To many who were infected, or whose loved ones were, the report confirms what they already knew

Ordinary people were wronged, their lives ruined. After today’s devastating report, a reckoning is long overdue, says former Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley

Damning public inquiry has laid bare failings of worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS

Groups representing victims say trust in government can no longer be taken for granted after report finds evidence of cover-up

A decades-long UK scandal in which thousands of people died after being treated with infected blood was covered up and largely could have been avoided, according to a bombshell report published Monday.

After years of neglect, countless missed opportunities and a tireless campaign for justice, the infected blood inquiry has published its report. It is excoriating, with inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff stating that the disaster “was not an accident,” instead saying it happened “because those in authority, doctors, the blood services…