The contaminated blood scandal saw "wrongs done on individual, collective and systemic levels", and the Government must set up a full compensation scheme this year to provide redress, the chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry said.
Sir Brian Langstaff KC - who has overseen the Inquiry since its inception in 2017 - has made a series of 18 recommendations about compensation for those infected and affected by the scandal. Thousands were infected with HIV, hepatitis and other lethal infections through NHS blood products in one of the health service's biggest treatment disasters.
Many of those people have died including Peter and Stephen Longstaff - haemophiliacs who were both infected with HIV through blood products they were given to treat their condition. Peter's widow Carol Grayson, from Jesmond, has long campaigned for justice.
