Infected blood inquiry chair calls for more victims to be compensated

Bereaved parents and orphaned children unrecognised, says Brian Langstaff ahead of full report into NHS’s ‘biggest treatment disaster’

More people who lost loved ones during the “biggest treatment disaster in the NHS” should be entitled to compensation, the chair of the infected blood inquiry has said.

It has been estimated that thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis by contaminated blood between 1970 and 1991.