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Recommendations: Infected Blood Inquiry

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Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

Recommendations

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Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
IBI-10a(iii)	Additional Charity Support That favourable consideration be given to other charities and organisations supporting people infected and affected that were granted core participant status (as …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-10a(v)	Yellow Card System Prominence Steps be taken to give greater prominence to the online Yellow Card system to those receiving drugs or biological products, or who …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-12a	Implementation Commitment Within 12 Months Within the next 12 months, the Government should consider and either commit to implementing the recommendations which I make, or give sufficient …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-12b	Parliamentary Progress Report During that period, and before the end of this year – the Government should report back to Parliament as to the progress …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-12c	No Delay to Second Interim Response This timetable should not interfere with earlier consideration and response to the Recommendations of the Second Interim Report of the Inquiry.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IR1-1	Interim Compensation Payments An interim payment, of no less than £100,000, should be paid to all those infected and all bereaved partners currently registered with …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2022)	Accepted
IR2-1	Scheme Eligibility - Infected and Affected Persons I recommend that the scheme should offer redress to those infected with HCV and/or HIV, and/or HBV (limited to chronic HBV unless …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-2	Eligibility Conditions for Infected Persons I recommend that the conditions of eligibility for admission of relevant infected persons to the scheme should be that: a) they have …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-3	Standard of Proof and Automatic Eligibility As above, save that (a) the last bullet point should read: "eligibility is accepted if the information available points towards eligibility and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-4	Affected Persons Categories I recommend that the following relevant affected persons should be admitted to the scheme: a) spouses, civil partners and long term cohabitees …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-5	Classification of Infections and Severity I recommend that infections eligible for compensation should be classified in the following manner: a) there should be defined categories for each …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-6	Categories of Loss and Award Heads I recommend that the appropriate award in any case should be composed under the following categories of loss, applicable to both eligible …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-7	No Exemplary Damages but Court Access Preserved I recommend that there should be no award for exemplary damages, though it should remain open to a claimant to pursue such …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-8	Tariff-Based Compensation Framework I recommend that the Government should approve a scheme setting out a framework of tariff based compensation for eligible infected and affected …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-9	Status of Awards and Legal Rights I recommend that, with reference to the status of awards: a) eligible infected and affected persons should not be required to accept …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-10	Form of Awards - Lump Sum and Periodical Payments I recommend that: a) awards should be made in a lump sum in respect of an Injury Impact Award, Social Impact Award, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-11	Interest on Past Losses I recommend that interest be payable on awards for past financial losses and past provision of care, from the date of infection …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-12	Interim Payments for Bereaved Families I recommend that an interim payment of £100,000 should be paid to recognise the deaths of people to date unrecognised and alleviate …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-13	Relationship with Support Schemes and Benefits I recommend that, with regard to the relationship between compensation, support payments and benefits: a) in assessing compensation under the scheme, no …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-14	Arms Length Body Administration I recommend that an Arms Length Body (ALB) should be set up to administer the compensation scheme, with guaranteed independence of judgement, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-15	Support Services for Applicants I recommend that the scheme should include provision of the following support services to be provided without charge to the applicant: a) …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-16	Central Delivery with Devolved Support I recommend that the compensation scheme should be delivered by one central body, appropriately resourced and staffed. Current support schemes should however …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-17	Bespoke Psychological Service I recommend that without delay steps be taken to provide a bespoke psychological service in England.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
IR2-18	Immediate Establishment of Scheme I recommend that a compensation scheme should be set up now and it should begin work this year.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted

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