Evidence of Diagnosis Date
Infected Blood Inquiry · Additional Report on Compensation · Issued 9 July 2025 · Addressed to: UK Government
Government responseUK Government: Accepted (Jul 2025)
DeliveryCabinet Office says completed (Apr 2026)
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
Regulation 14(2)(c) be amended to remove the requirement for evidence of the date of diagnosis of Hepatitis B or C. An appropriate redraft to achieve this would be: "where the diagnosis mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) is one of HIV, the date on which it was given."
Infected Blood Inquiry, Additional Report on Compensation · 9 Jul 2025 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry recommended removing the requirement to evidence Hepatitis B or C diagnosis dates. In April 2026, the Cabinet Office stated that "a date of diagnosis for Hepatitis B and C no longer has to be provided" when applying for the scheme (Cabinet Office, Apr 2026). This followed the department's announcement in July 2025 that the Government accepted the recommendation to remove the requirement in order to aid quicker processing of claims (Cabinet Office response, Jul 2025).
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 2 Oct 2026.
Government response
●UK Government · Accepted · 21 Jul 2025
In order to aid processing of claims quicker, the Government has accepted the Inquiry's recommendation to remove the requirement for people with Hepatitis B or C to evidence their date of diagnosis with those infections when they apply to the scheme.
Extract from: Infected Blood Inquiry Additional Report Government Response
Delivery
●Cabinet Office says completed · 14 Apr 2026
A date of diagnosis for Hepatitis B and C no longer has to be provided when applying for the Scheme.
From: Government response to consultation on proposed changes to the infected blood compensation scheme
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