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 National Health Service. 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.Lord Morris of Manchester introduced a similar Bill with the same title in the 2009–10 parliamentary session. It completed its stages in the House of Lords on 21 January 2010, and received its first reading in the House of Commons on the same day, but made no further progress.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, and donated blood would be subject to prion filtration.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
2 May 2012
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The Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill would provide financial and practical support to people infected by NHS blood or blood products, and to their widows, dependants and carers. It would create an NHS compensation card system for treatment and care, pay non-means-tested cash compensation, and set up a haemophilia advisory committee along with a review of support available. It would also strengthen blood safety with testing of patients and donors.
Originated in the Lords (with a similar earlier bill), it progressed through all Lords stages and is currently at the 2nd reading in the Commons; no further Commons stages have yet occurred.
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