To establish a committee to advise on haemophilia; to make provision in relation to blood donations; to establish a scheme for NHS Compensation Cards for people who have been treated with and infected by contaminated blood or blood products; to make provision for the financial compensation of people treated with and infected by contaminated blood and blood products and their widows, dependants and carers; to establish a review of the support available for people who have been treated with and infected by contaminated blood or blood products; and for connected purposes.
The purpose of the Bill is to provide support for people who have been infected with certain diseases as a result of receiving contaminated blood and blood products supplied by the NHS. The Bill would establish a compensation package for people who have been infected, their widows, dependants and carers. It would also set up a committee to advise on the treatment of haemophilia and a review into the support available for infected people and their families.Key areasAll people with haemophilia who have received blood or blood products supplied by the NHS would be offered a test for hepatitis B and C, HIV, human T-lymphotropic virus, syphilis and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Their partners would also be eligible to receive the test.All blood donors would be routinely tested for these conditions.People who have been infected by contaminated blood or blood products supplied by the NHS would receive NHS compensation cards entitling them to free-of-charge prescription drugs, counselling, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and home nursing, and priority NHS treatment whenever possible.People who have been infected would be entitled to claim non-means tested financial compensation.Widows and other dependants of people who have been infected, and those who have had to give up work to care for an infected person, would also be entitled to claim compensation. A committee to advise on the treatment of haemophilia would be established. The committee would be involved in a review of the support available for people who have been infected by contaminated blood or blood products and their families.
House of Lords
12 April 2010
The Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill would create support and compensation for people harmed by contaminated NHS blood and blood products. It would set up a committee on haemophilia care, establish compensation arrangements and NHS cards for infected individuals and their families, require testing for recipients and donors, and commission a review of the support available to the infected and their carers and dependants.
Currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons. The bill originated in the Lords and is progressing through Parliament.
Generated 21 February 2026
Final amendments were made to the Bill during the third reading on 21 January.
This Bill was presented to the House of Commons on 21.1.2010. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage. The 2009-10 session of parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
