The Infected Blood Inquiry’s hearings will resume in September, with medical staff to give evidence over five months.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic it was forced to cancel hearings in June and July which would have seen clinicians – including from the Royal Free Hospital– answer questions about the scandal which saw thousands given contaminated blood products containing deadly viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C.
The public inquiry opened in September 2018. Hearings will resume from September 22.
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Thousands of people died or were made seriously ill after contracting viruses from blood products or transfusions they were given by doctors in the course of medical care. The inquiry is seeking to establish how this happened.
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