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Please see below the latest news articles from the Infected Blood Inquiry and check back regularly for further updates.
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Please see below the latest news articles from the Infected Blood Inquiry and check back regularly for further updates.
Email: media@infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk
Phone: 07933 174 436
Inquiry clarifies objectives for monitoring liver damage.
Following the publication of the Inquiry Report, the Inquiry was contacted by some hepatologists and NHS England. They sought clarification of one of the Inquiry’s recommendations. Specifically, they had questions about recommendation 6, which is about how liver damage should be monitored for people who were infected with…
Timings are provisional and subject to change.
Tuesday 30 April
From 09:30 Registration. Tea and coffee available
10:30 Opening remarks from Sir Brian Langstaff and Jenni Richards QC
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The Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, has welcomed the decision by the National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) to waive their rights to legal professional...
During our hearings, individual witnesses’ statements will be published on our website after they have spoken.
Some of the information in those statements will be redacted. We have today published a...
We have today published our financial report which details the Inquiry’s annual position of expenditure for the 2018-19 financial year up to 30 March 2019.
Inquiry Finance Report - March 2019, Pdf...
The third issue of the Infected Blood Inquiry newsletter has now been published. This is designed to provide a short update on the work of the Inquiry.
Please click on the link below to view the...
Public witness hearings for the Inquiry begin in April. To help those attending or interested in following proceedings we explain how the hearings will work below.
Hearings begin in London on 30...
The Inquiry is holding hearings from 30 April in London, Belfast, Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff (dates can be found here) at which people infected and affected will give their personal testimony.
Each...
The public hearings for the Inquiry begin at the end of April and we have now published the guidance that outlines how witnesses will be questioned during the hearings.
The Inquiry is not a trial and...
The Inquiry has a large team of experienced lawyers who are working to ensure the Inquiry is meeting its terms of reference and abiding by its statutory obligations.
Our lawyers have a range of...
We are today able to formally confirm the first appointments to the expert groups who will be providing advice to the Inquiry in a transparent and open way.
Experts from a range of fields will help...
On 5 July 2018 I wrote to the relevant heads of the NHS in the UK to request that no documents, files or paperwork that may be of interest to the Inquiry be destroyed. I wrote again on 12 December...
The second issue of the Infected Blood Inquiry newsletter has now been published. This is designed to provide a short update on the work of the Inquiry.
Please click on the link below to view the...