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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Clea Skopeliti

Ex-health secretaries call for immediate payouts to UK blood scandal victims

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At least 2,400 people died after contracting HIV or hepatitis C as a result of receiving infected blood from the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s Photograph: Burger/Phanie/Rex/Shutterstock

Three former health secretaries have called for the UK government to give immediate compensation to victims of the contaminated blood scandal.

The chair of the contaminated blood inquiry on Friday called for the victims and their families to be paid “without delay” after he recommended the level of interim compensation payments. Sir Brian Langstaff said infected people and bereaved partners should be given “payments of no less than £100,000”.

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