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Editorial: The grave failures of politicians, civil servants and the NHS over decades must lead to change

Prime minister says successive governments failed and vows to pay whatever it takes to compensate victims

Key people and groups involved in perpetuating and covering up the public health disaster, and those who brought it to light

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

Pupils were viewed as ‘cheaper than chimps’ at Hampshire school where Richard Warwick was infected with HIV and hepatitis C

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…

Watch as infected blood scandal campaigners reacted to an inquiry’s findings that politicians, doctors, and civil servants were involved in a chilling cover-up of the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.

‘Decades-long moral failure at the heart of our national life,’ says prime minister Rishi Sunak