In the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated NHS blood products,including the notorious Factor VIII,yet no organisation or individual has ever been held to account.
So far,more than 2,800 are known to have died,while tens of thousands more lives have been destroyed in the families of those affected.
Caroline Wheeler has been reporting on this scandal - the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS - for over two decades. She has been integral to the campaign for justice for the victims and their families,and played a pivotal role in persuading Prime Minister Theresa May to agree to the infected blood inquiry in 2019,the findings of which are expected to be published in late 2023.
Death in the Blood will be based on thousands of government documents,court and inquiry transcripts,plus interviews with prime ministers,cabinet ministers,Downing Street advisers,senior civil servants,doctors,and above all the victims and their families whose personal testimony forms the beating heart of this book.
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9781035405244Number of pages: 400Dimensions: 240 x 156 mm
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'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations. It shows it was complicit in a criminal cover-up on an industrial scale lasting five decades. It should prompt major changes to the way Britain is run - starting with a duty of candour on all public servants.'- Andy Burnham,Mayor of Great Manchester
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