Blood scandal: 'Mistakes of the past repeated'

THE compensation scheme for the infected blood scandal has “perpetuated” the harm of victims with key decisions about the scheme made “behind closed doors”, according to a report.

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The Infected Blood Inquiry warned there has been a “repetition of the mistakes of the past” made by Conservative and Labour governments and that people have been “harmed yet further" since the scheme was established.

Sir Brian Langstaff, chairman of the probe, said the number of people who have been compensated to date is “profoundly unsatisfactory” as he called for “faster and fairer” compensation for victims.