Community Advisory Body
Infected Blood Inquiry · Additional Report on Compensation · Issued 9 July 2025 · Addressed to: IBCA
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
A formal role be given within IBCA for an advisory body consisting of people infected and affected, covering a range of experience broadly representative of those groups, and (if those groups so wish) including clinicians covering the major relevant disciplines of hepatitis and liver disease, HIV, transfusion, haemophilia, psychosocial aspects and palliative care. The advisory body should choose its chair, and the chair should be formally invited to each and every meeting of the Board of IBCA, and be given observer status.
Infected Blood Inquiry, Additional Report on Compensation · 9 Jul 2025 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- IBCA has established a 13-member Community Advisory Panel chaired by Tim Green, comprising people with direct or professional experience of the infected blood scandal (IBCA Community Update, January 2026).
Response — verbatim from government
●IBCA
The remaining 11 recommendations focus on IBCA delivery. Further detail on these will be set out by IBCA in due course.
IBCA · 21 Jul 2025 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 21 Jul 2025 IBCA has established a 13-member Community Advisory Panel chaired by Tim Green (appointed 4 March 2026), comprising people with direct or professional experience of the infected blood scandal. IBCA is also recruiting a Clinical Advisory Panel of seven senior clinicians covering hepatitis, liver disease, HIV, transfusion, haemophilia, psychosocial aspects, and palliative care (recruitment closes 23 March 2026). (Source: IBCA Community Update, 12 March 2026) Source →
- 15 Jan 2026 · IBCA Community Update As of 13 January 2026: 3,721 people asked to start claims, 3,546 begun process, 3,074 received offers totalling £2.47bn, 2,861 paid totalling £1.89bn. Third compensation regulations in force 31 December 2025. View source → Good Progress
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