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Public Inquiry Officially Set Up

After 30 years of campaigning yesterday the Public Inquiry into Contaminated Blood officially began. Head of the Cabinet Office, David Liddington MP, formally indorsed the recommendations made by the Chairman of the inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, in the H...

Department of Health meeting rejected

Today The Birchgrove Group joined with other contaminated blood campaign organisations in declining an invitation from the Department of Health to meet with them so as to begin to 'determine the format and scope' of the recently announced inquiry.&n...

Resistance as usual

On this past Tuesday something quite remarkable happened. Respected MP and former Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, stood in The House of Commons and alleged there has been "an orchestrated campaign to prevent the truth being told" about the contaminated blood scandal....

Questions that need answering

Almost immediately after the consultation document and its accompanying proposals were published they were met with dismay and anger by the contaminated blood community. It was not in any form the improvement on support that had been expected, but to then a...