Public Inquiry Recommendations

When doctors become aware that a patient has had a blood transfusion prior to 1996, that patient should be offered a blood …

As a matter of routine, new patients registering at a practice should be asked if they have had such a transfusion.

That peer review of haemophilia care should continue to occur as presently practised, with any necessary support being provided by NHS Trusts …

That NHS Trusts and Health Boards should be required to deliberate on peer review findings and give favourable consideration to implementing the …

A peer review of each centre should take place not less than once every five years.

The necessary administrative and clinical resources should be provided by hospital trusts and boards, integrated care boards, and service commissioners to facilitate …

Recombinant coagulation factor products should be offered in place of plasma-derived ones where clinically appropriate. Service commissioners should ensure that such treatment …

That the National Haemophilia Database, run by the UKHCDO, merits the support of additional central funding.

A clinical audit should as a matter of routine include measures of patient satisfaction or concern, and these should be reported to …

That the following charities receive funding specifically for patient advocacy: the UK Haemophilia Society; the Hepatitis C Trust; Haemophilia Scotland; the Scottish …

That favourable consideration be given to other charities and organisations supporting people infected and affected that were granted core participant status (as …

Steps be taken to give greater prominence to the online Yellow Card system to those receiving drugs or biological products, or who …

Within the next 12 months, the Government should consider and either commit to implementing the recommendations which I make, or give sufficient …

During that period, and before the end of this year – the Government should report back to Parliament as to the progress …

This timetable should not interfere with earlier consideration and response to the Recommendations of the Second Interim Report of the Inquiry.

An interim payment, of no less than £100,000, should be paid to all those infected and all bereaved partners currently registered with …

I recommend that the scheme should offer redress to those infected with HCV and/or HIV, and/or HBV (limited to chronic HBV unless …

I recommend that the conditions of eligibility for admission of relevant infected persons to the scheme should be that: a) they have …

As above, save that (a) the last bullet point should read: "eligibility is accepted if the information available points towards eligibility and …

I recommend that the following relevant affected persons should be admitted to the scheme: a) spouses, civil partners and long term cohabitees …

I recommend that infections eligible for compensation should be classified in the following manner: a) there should be defined categories for each …

I recommend that the appropriate award in any case should be composed under the following categories of loss, applicable to both eligible …

I recommend that there should be no award for exemplary damages, though it should remain open to a claimant to pursue such …

I recommend that the Government should approve a scheme setting out a framework of tariff based compensation for eligible infected and affected …

I recommend that, with reference to the status of awards: a) eligible infected and affected persons should not be required to accept …

I recommend that: a) awards should be made in a lump sum in respect of an Injury Impact Award, Social Impact Award, …

I recommend that interest be payable on awards for past financial losses and past provision of care, from the date of infection …

I recommend that an interim payment of £100,000 should be paid to recognise the deaths of people to date unrecognised and alleviate …

I recommend that, with regard to the relationship between compensation, support payments and benefits: a) in assessing compensation under the scheme, no …

I recommend that an Arms Length Body (ALB) should be set up to administer the compensation scheme, with guaranteed independence of judgement, …

I recommend that the scheme should include provision of the following support services to be provided without charge to the applicant: a) …

I recommend that the compensation scheme should be delivered by one central body, appropriately resourced and staffed. Current support schemes should however …

I recommend that without delay steps be taken to provide a bespoke psychological service in England.

I recommend that a compensation scheme should be set up now and it should begin work this year.

The Chair and Panel recommend that the UK government ratifies the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual …

The Home Office should coordinate the development of a national plan of action addressing child sexual abuse and exploitation overseas by UK …

The Home Office should bring forward legislation providing for the establishment and maintenance by the National Crime Agency of a list of …

Government, political parties and other Westminster institutions must have whistleblowing policies and procedures which cover child sexual abuse and exploitation. Every employee …

The Cabinet Office must ensure that each government department reviews its child safeguarding policy or policies in light of the expert witness …

The criteria for forfeiture of all honours must be formally extended to include convictions, cautions and cases decided by trial of the …

The Cabinet Office should re-examine the policy on posthumous forfeiture, in order to consider the perspectives of victims and survivors of child …

The government should publish, without further delay, the interim code of practice in respect of child sexual abuse and exploitation as proposed …

The government should introduce legislation requiring providers of online services and social media platforms to implement more stringent age verification techniques on …

The Chair and Panel have recommended that all institutions which sent children abroad as part of the child migration programmes should ensure …

The Chair and Panel have recommended that institutions involved in the child migration programmes who have not apologised for their role should …

The Chair and Panel have recommended that the UK government establishes a financial redress scheme for surviving former child migrants, providing for …

It should be made clear that the right to compensation for distress conferred by section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998 …

Exemplary damages (whether so described or renamed as punitive damages) should be available for actions for breach of privacy, breach of confidence …

The term 'off-the-record briefing' should be discontinued. The term 'non-reportable briefing' should be used to cover a background briefing which is not …

It should be mandatory for ACPO rank officers to record all of their contact with the media, and for that record to …