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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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Most Recent News

  • 2 February 2024

    New Venue for Report Publication

    Publication of the Inquiry’s Report will now take place at Central Hall, Westminster, on 20 May 2024. 

    The Inquiry has changed the venue so that all Inquiry participants who wish to attend can be accommodated. The Inquiry team is contacting everyone who has registered their interest in attending. Journalists wishing to attend on the day should contact the Inquiry’s media team…

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  • 29 January 2020

    Intermediaries’ report published

    We have today (29 January 2020) published the report written by the Inquiry’s intermediaries. 

    Some people told the Inquiry that the stigma attached to their experiences meant they would have...

  • 23 December 2019

    Update on expert groups

    We have today (Monday 23 December) published one new and four supplementary Letters of Instruction for our expert groups.

    A new letter has been sent to the medical ethics group while the hepatitis...

  • 2 December 2019

    Newsletter

    The most recent edition 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...

  • 25 November 2019

    Local meetings with the Inquiry team

    The Inquiry will be holding local meetings for people infected and/or affected throughout the UK in the first months of 2020. The aim of these meetings is to update people on the work of the Inquiry...

  • 18 November 2019

    Inquiry round-up

    The three weeks hearing evidence from people infected and affected this autumn brought the total number of people who have given oral evidence to the Inquiry since April to 189.  The Inquiry has also...

  • 14 November 2019

    Judicial review process complete

    In September, five clients of Malcomson Law issued judicial review proceedings against the Chair of the Inquiry. This process has now come to an end.

    Four core participants were challenging the...

  • 4 October 2019

    Newsletter

    The most recent edition 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...

  • 4 October 2019

    Inquiry files paperwork in judicial review

    Five clients of Malcomson Law have issued judicial review proceedings against the Chair of the Inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff. We filed paperwork yesterday (3 October 2019) to the Administrative Court...

  • 30 September 2019

    Public hearings factsheet

    We have published a factsheet to provide information for those attending the hearings in London between 8 October and 1 November 2019.

     

    London hearings factsheet.

  • 27 September 2019

    Instruction letters for expert groups published

    We have today (27 September 2019) published the first set of Letters of Instruction for five of our expert groups. 

    The letters have been sent to these five groups: psychosocial, hepatitis, HIV...

  • 24 September 2019

    Timetable for public hearings 8 October - 1 November 2019 (London)

    Timings are provisional and subject to change.

     

    Week 1

     

    Tuesday 8 October

     

    From 09:30 Registration. Tea and coffee available

     

    10:00 Witnesses 1 and 2 - Colin Turton and...

  • 19 September 2019

    Sir Brian Langstaff writes to Public Health England

    Sir Brian Langstaff has written to the Chief Executive of Public Health England (PHE) to express his disappointment at the lack of attention paid in a recent PHE report into hepatitis infection...