Inquiry news
This page tracks blood safety. It is not a feed of the UK inquiry alone, and it is not medical advice for a person waiting on a test.
UK Infected Blood Inquiry publishes its final report
On 20 May 2024 the UK Infected Blood Inquiry published its final report. It described a calamity that infected people through blood and blood products, including people with haemophilia, and it criticised decades of delay.
NHS shares the report as a warning, not as a local legal process. The full documents are on the inquiry’s own website.
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Safer treatment products in Nepal
NHS continues to ask the Ministry of Health and Population and provincial governments to fund virus-inactivated factor and reliable testing. Humanitarian shipments arranged with the World Federation of Hemophilia have helped some patients. They are not a national supply system.
If your centre changes the product you receive, ask for the name, the batch number and the storage instructions in writing.
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Provincial meeting included the supply question
The 11 March 2024 advocacy meeting was about diagnosis and treatment, which includes what product a province is willing to buy. A camp without a safe concentrate is not comprehensive care.
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