Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “truly sorry” for the horrors of the NHS infected blood scandal as he told the House of Commons he wanted to make sure “nothing like this can ever happen in our country again”.
The apology followed the publication of the final report of the damning public inquiry into the decades-long infected blood scandal, which found that the British state was guilty of a “chilling” and “pervasive” cover-up.
Sir Brian Langstaff, chair of the infected blood inquiry, said on Monday 30,000 men, women and children had been “knowingly exposed to unacceptable risks of infection” through contaminated blood products provided by the NHS between the 1970s and early 1990s